Proverbs 18:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ The wealth of the rich is their strong city; in their imagination it is like a high wall.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ The rich man's wealth is his strong city, And as an high wall in his own conceit.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high protecting wall in his own imagination and conceit.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, And as a high wall in his own imagination.

Common English Bible

¹¹ The riches of the wealthy are a strong city and like a high wall in their imagination.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ The substance of the wealthy is the city of his strength, and it is like a strong wall encircling him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ The substance of the rich man is the city of his strength, and as a strong wall compassing him about.

Proverbs 18:11 Cross References

Proverbs 10:15

The wealth of the rich is their fortress; the poverty of the poor is their ruin.

Proverbs 11:4

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction one’s heart is haughty, but humility goes before honor.

Proverbs 28:11

The rich is wise in self-esteem, but an intelligent poor person sees through the pose.

Ecclesiastes 7:12

For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to the one who possesses it.

Jeremiah 9:22

Speak! Thus says the Lord: “Human corpses shall fall like dung upon the open field, like sheaves behind the reaper, and no one shall gather them.”

Deuteronomy 32:31

Indeed, their rock is not like our Rock; our enemies are fools.