Proverbs 18:11

Bible in Basic English 1965

The property of a man of wealth is his strong town, and it is as a high wall in the thoughts of his heart.

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The property of the man of wealth is his strong town: the poor man's need is his destruction.

Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.

Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.

The man of wealth seems to himself to be wise, but the poor man who has sense has a low opinion of him.

Wisdom keeps a man from danger even as money does; but the value of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to its owner.

The bodies of men will be falling like waste on the open fields, and like grain dropped by the grain-cutter, and no one will take them up.

For their rock is not like our Rock, even our haters themselves being judges.