Cross references

Proverbs 11:29

He who brings trouble on his house will inherit the wind,

and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

Proverbs 11:29 BSB

Proverbs 11:29 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ecclesiastes 5:16 (5 votes) and Proverbs 14:19 (4 votes). 6 other verses point back to it. It links with 6 other books, from Genesis 34 to Habakkuk 2.

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Which verses does Proverbs 11:29 point to?

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  1. This too is a grievous affliction: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?

  2. The evil bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

  3. He who is greedy for unjust gain brings trouble on his household, but he who hates bribes will live.

  4. Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster! You have plotted shame for your house by cutting off many peoples and forfeiting your life.

  5. Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

  6. Then Joshua, together with all Israel, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the cloak, the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his oxen and donkeys and sheep, his tent, and everything else he owned, and brought them to the Valley of Achor. “Why have you brought this trouble upon us?” said Joshua. “Today the LORD will bring trouble upon you!” And all Israel stoned him to death. Then they stoned the others and burned their bodies.

  7. His name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was harsh and evil in his dealings.

  8. Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”

  9. About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal dead.

  10. Hosea 8:72 votes

    For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

Which verses point to Proverbs 11:29?

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