Proverbs 18:11

Modern English Version

The wealth of a rich man is his strong city, like a high wall in his own imagination.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:15

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

Proverbs 11:4

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

Proverbs 18:12

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

Proverbs 28:11

The rich man is wise in his own eyes, but the poor man who has understanding sees through him.

Ecclesiastes 7:12

For the protective shadow of wisdom is like the protective shadow of silver, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of the one who possesses it.

Jeremiah 9:22

Speak, Thus says the Lord: “The carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the sheaf after the harvester, and no one shall gather them.”

Deuteronomy 32:31

For their rock is not as our rock; even our enemies themselves concede this.