Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that is wise winneth souls.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
In Context
31Behold, the righteous shall be requited 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 upon her, and happy is every one that holdest her fast.
Proverbs 15:4A soothing tongue is a tree of life; but perverseness therein is a wound to the spirit.
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 →