²⁹ Whoso is troubling his own house inheriteth wind, And a servant `is' the fool to the wise of heart.

¹⁶ And this also `is' a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage `is' to him who laboureth for wind?

¹⁹ The evil have bowed down before the good, And the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

⁹ Wo `to' him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil,

¹⁰ Thou hast counselled a shameful thing to thy house, To cut off many peoples, and sinful `is' thy soul.

⁷ For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none -- a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield -- strangers do swallow it up.

²⁷ A dishonest gainer is troubling his house, And whoso is hating gifts liveth.

³⁸ And it cometh to pass, `in' about ten days, that Jehovah smiteth Nabal, and he dieth,

¹⁷ `And, now, know and consider what thou dost; for evil hath been determined against our lord, and against all his house, and he `is' too much a son of worthlessness to be spoken to.'

³ And the name of the man `is' Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail, and the woman `is' of good understanding, and of fair form, and the man `is' hard and evil `in' doings; and he `is' a Calebite.

²⁴ And Joshua taketh Achan son of Zerah, and the silver, and the robe, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his ox, and his ass, and his flock, and his tent, and all that he hath, and all Israel with him, and they cause them to go up the valley of Achor.

²⁵ And Joshua saith, `What! thou hast troubled us! -- Jehovah doth trouble thee this day;' and all Israel cast stones at him, and they burn them with fire, and they stone them with stones,

³⁰ And Jacob saith unto Simeon and unto Levi, `Ye have troubled me, by causing me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanite, and among the Perizzite: and I `am' few in number, and they have been gathered against me, and have smitten me, and I have been destroyed, I and my house.'