Proverbs 11:29
He that troubleth his own house, shall inherit the winds: and the fool shall serve the wise.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui conturbat domum suam possidebit ventos, et qui stultus est serviet sapienti.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁ μὴ συνπεριφερόμενος τῷ ἑαυτοῦ οἴκῳ κληρονομήσει ἄνεμον, δουλεύσει δὲ ἄφρων φρονίμῳ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- עוֹכֵ֣ר בֵּ֭יתוֹ יִנְחַל ר֑וּחַ וְעֶ֥בֶד אֱ֝וִ֗יל לַחֲכַם לֵֽב
Haydock's commentary
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)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.