Proverbs 18:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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

Proverbs 11:4

Riches profit not in the day of wrath: But righteousness delivereth from death.

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, And before honour goeth humility.

Proverbs 28:11

The rich man is wise in his own conceit; But the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.

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 9:22

Speak, Thus saith the LORD, The carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.

Deuteronomy 32:31

For their rock is not as our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.