Proverbs 11:29 (BSB)

He who brings trouble on his house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

From Proverbs 11. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 11:29

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 11:29: 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 own houses...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 11:29: 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 11:29: troubleth--as Pro 15:27 explains, by greediness for gain (compare Pro 11:17). 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.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 11:29: He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool [shall be] servant to the wise of heart. (q) The covetous men who spare their riches to the hinderance of their families, will be deprived of it miserably. (r) For though the wicked are rich, yet they are only slaves to the godly, who are the true possessors of the gifts of God.