Proverbs 10:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

The rich man's wealth is his strong city: The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

The rich man's wealth is his strong city: The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The rich man's wealth is his strong city; the poverty of the poor is their ruin. [Ps. 52:7; I Tim. 6:17.]

American Standard Version (1901)

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

Common English Bible

The riches of the wealthy are their strong city; the ruin of the poor is their poverty.

Catholic Public Domain Version

The substance of the rich is the city of his strength. The fear of the poor is their destitution.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The substance of a rich man is the city of his strength: the fear of the poor is their poverty.

Proverbs 10:15 Cross References

Psalm 49:6

They that trust in their wealth, And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

Psalm 52:7

Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness.

Proverbs 14:20

The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: But the rich hath many friends.

Proverbs 18:11

The rich man's wealth is his strong city, And as an high wall in his own imagination.

Proverbs 19:7

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: How much more do his friends go far from him! He pursueth them with words, but they are gone.

Ecclesiastes 7:12

For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it.

Jeremiah 9:23

Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:

Mark 10:24

And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!

Luke 12:19

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.

1 Timothy 6:17

Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;