Proverbs 11:29 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

Navigate

Chapter 11

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

²⁹He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

Proverbs 11:29 —

My Notes

Notes are saved on this device.

← Proverbs 11:28 Proverbs 11:30 →

Original word meaning

— of 8

Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.

Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 5:16
And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
Proverbs 15:27
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
Proverbs 14:19
The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
Habakkuk 2:9-10
Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! …
Hosea 8:7
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

Topics

Bowels Caution Consistency Counsel Depravity of Man Expediency Guilt Heart

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 29)

Two extremes in the management of family-affairs are here condemned and the ill consequences of them foretold:—1. Carefulness and carnal policy, on the one hand. There are those that by their extreme earnestness in pursuit of the world, their anxiety about their business and fretfulness about their losses, their strictness with their servants and their niggardliness towards their families, trouble…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 29)

24-31. The scope of the whole is a comment on Pr 11:23. Thus liberality, by God’s blessing, secures increase, while penuriousness, instead of expected gain, procures poverty.