He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
He that troubleth ... - The temper, nigardly and worrying, which leads a man to make those about him miserable, and proves but bad economy in the end.
Matthew Henry
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…
Cambridge Bible
troubleth by churlish and niggardly ways. Comp. the story of Nabal, 1Samuel 25.
the wind Which shall drive away him and his possessions, Psa 1:4; or the windmay here be used to denote that which is…
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