Proverbs 18:11

New American Bible - revised edition

The wealth of the rich is their strong city; they fancy it a high wall.

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

Wealth is useless on a day of wrath, but justice saves from death.

Before disaster the heart is haughty, but before honor is humility.

The rich are wise in their own eyes, but the poor who are intelligent see through them.

For the protection of wisdom is as the protection of money; and knowledge is profitable because wisdom gives life to those who possess it.

Thus says the Lord: Let not the wise boast of his wisdom, nor the strong boast of his strength, nor the rich man boast of his riches;

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