Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the just one is the tree of life. And whoever receives souls is wise.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
In Context
29Whoever troubles his own house will possess the winds. And whoever is foolish will serve the wise.
31If the just are repaid upon the earth, how much more the impious and the sinner!
Cross References
Proverbs 3:18She is a tree of life to those who overtake her, and he who shall take hold of her is blessed.
Proverbs 15:4A peaceful tongue is a tree of life. But that which is immoderate will crush the spirit.
Matthew 4:19And he said to them: “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
John 4:36For he who reaps, receives wages and gathers fruit unto eternal life, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
1 Thessalonians 2:19For what is our hope, and our joy, and our crown of glory? Is it not you, before our Lord Jesus Christ at his return?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:30
29 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart. 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 their… Read the whole commentary →