Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that is wise winneth souls.
Revised Version 1895
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 recompensed 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 retaineth her.
Proverbs 15:4A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breaking of the spirit.
Matthew 4:19And he saith unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you fishers of men.
John 4:36He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
1 Thessalonians 2:19For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus 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 →