Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous [is] a tree of life, And whoso is taking souls [is] wise.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
In Context
29Whoso is troubling his own house inheriteth wind, And a servant [is] the fool to the wise of heart.
31Lo, the righteous in the earth is recompensed, Surely also the wicked and the sinner!
Cross References
Proverbs 3:18A tree of life she [is] to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her [is] happy.
Proverbs 15:4A healed tongue [is] a tree of life, And perverseness in it — a breach in the spirit.
Matthew 4:19and he saith to them, 'Come ye after me, and I will make you fishers of men,'
John 4:36'And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;
1 Thessalonians 2:19for what [is] our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? are not even ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his presence?
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 →