Proverbs 11:29
The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.
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30The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, but violent behaviour takes away souls.
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Genesis 34:30And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.
1 Samuel 25:3Now this man was named Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail: she was a woman of good sense and pleasing looks: but the man was cruel and evil in his ways; he was of the family of Caleb.
1 Samuel 25:38And about ten days after, the Lord sent disease on Nabal and death came to him.
Proverbs 15:27He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.
Hosea 8:7For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:29
28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch. Observe, 1. Our riches will fail us when we are in the greatest need: He that trusts in them, as if they would secure him the favour of God and be his protection and portion, shall fall, as a man who lays his weight on a broken reed, which will not only disappoint him, but run into his hand and pierce him. 2. Our righteousness will stand us in stead when our riches fail us: The righteous shall then flourish as a branch, the… Read the whole commentary →