Proverbs 18:11

A Conservative Version

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

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

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense. But the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

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

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

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor [is] humility.

The rich man is wise in his own conceit, but a poor man who has understanding searches him out.

Speak, Thus says LORD: The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather.