Teks -- Proverbs 11:29 (NET)

11:29 The one who troubles his family will inherit nothing, and the fool will be a servant to the wise person.

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Wesley: Pro 11:29 - Troubleth

He who brings trouble upon himself and children, either by prodigality, or by restless endeavours to heap up riches.

Wesley: Pro 11:29 - Wind

Shall be as unable to keep what he gets as a man is to hold the wind in his hand.

JFB: Pro 11:24-31

The scope of the whole is a comment on Pro 11:23. Thus liberality, by God's blessing, secures increase, while penuriousness, instead of expected gain, procures poverty.

JFB: Pro 11:29 - troubleth

As Pro 15:27 explains, by greediness for gain (compare Pro 11:17).

JFB: Pro 11:29 - inherit . . . wind

Even successful, his gains are of no real value. So the fool, thus acting, either comes to poverty, or heaps up for others.

Clarke: Pro 11:29 - Shalt inherit the wind

Shalt inherit the wind - He who dissipates his property by riotous living, shall be as unsatisfied as he who attempts to feed upon air.

Defender: Pro 11:29 - inherit the wind

This phrase, "inherit the wind," was appropriated as the title for a motion picture about the infamous Scopes evolution trial."

TSK: Pro 11:29 - that // inherit

that : Gen 34:30; Jos 7:24, Jos 7:25; 1Sa 25:3, 1Sa 25:17, 1Sa 25:38; Hab 2:9, Hab 2:10

inherit : Ecc 5:16; Hos 8:7

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Poole: Pro 11:29 - He that troubleth his own house // Shall inherit the wind // The fool shall be servant to the wise of heart

He that troubleth his own house he who bringeth trouble and misery upon himself and children, either,

1. By carelessness, slothfulness, improvidence, prodigality, or any wickedness, whereby he consumeth his estate. So this troubling of his house may be opposed to a man’ s building of his house , Jer 29:28 . Or,

2. By covetous desires and restless endeavours to heap up riches, whereby he greatly tires and troubles both himself and all his family with excessive cares and labours, which is called coveting an evil covetousness to his house , Hab 2:9 .

Shall inherit the wind shall be as unable to keep and enjoy what he gets as a man is to hold the wind in his fist, or to feed and satisfy himself with it; he shall be brought to poverty.

The fool shall be servant to the wise of heart by which means such a troublesome fool shall through his extreme necessity be forced even to sell himself to such as are wiser.

Haydock: Pro 11:29 - House

House. By his profligacy, or law-suits, shall be impoverished, (ver. 17.; Calmet) or if he act with violence, he will make his house empty, Ecclesiasticus iv. 35. (Menochius)

Gill: Pro 11:29 - He that troubleth his own house // shall inherit the wind // and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart

He that troubleth his own house,.... His family, his wife, and children, and servants; by being bitter to the one, and by provoking the others to wrath, and continually giving out menacing words to the rest; or through idleness, not providing for his family; or through an over worldly spirit, pushing on business, and hurrying it on beyond measure; or through a niggardly and avaricious temper, withholding meat and drink, and clothes convenient for them; see Pro 15:27; or through profuseness and prodigality. Such an one

shall inherit the wind; nothing but vanity and emptiness; he shall come to nothing, and get nothing; and what he does, be shall not keep, and on which he cannot live;

and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart; he who has both got and lost his substance in a foolish way shall be so reduced as to become a servant to him who has pursued wise measures, both in getting and keeping what he has; and to whom perhaps the fool formerly stood in the relation of a master. Such a change will be with respect to antichrist and the saints, Dan 7:25.