Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the just man is a tree of life: and he that gaineth souls, is wise.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
In Context
29He that troubleth his own house, shall inherit the winds: and the fool shall serve the wise.
31If the just man receive in the earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner.
Cross References
Proverbs 3:18She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her: and he that shall retain her is blessed.
Proverbs 15:4A peaceable tongue is a tree of life: but that which is immoderate, shall crush the spirit.
Matthew 4:19And he saith to them: Come ye after me, and I will make you to be fishers of men.
John 4:36And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice together.
1 Thessalonians 2:19For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glory? Are not you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
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 →