Proverbs 18:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Prov 10:15 : 15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
  • Prov 11:4 : 4 Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
  • Eccl 7:12 : 12 For wisdom is a defense, and money is a defense, but the excellence of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to those who have it.
  • Luke 12:19-21 : 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for many years; take your rest, eat, drink, and be merry. 20 But God said to him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you; then whose shall those things be, which you have provided? 21 So is he that lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
  • Deut 32:31 : 31 For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
  • Job 31:24-25 : 24 If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;' 25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
  • Ps 49:6-9 : 6 Those who trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; 7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: 8 For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceases forever: 9 That he should still live forever, and not see corruption.
  • Ps 52:5-7 : 5 God shall likewise destroy you forever, He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah. 6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him: 7 Look, this is the man that did not make God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
  • Ps 62:10-11 : 10 Trust not in oppression, and do not become vain in robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart upon them. 11 God has spoken once; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    15The rich man's wealth is his strong city, the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

  • Prov 28:11
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    11The rich man is wise in his own eyes, but the poor who has understanding searches him out.

  • Prov 18:12
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    12Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, and before honor is humility.

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    6Those who trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

  • Ps 52:7
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    7Look, this is the man that did not make God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

  • Prov 21:22
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    22A wise man scales the city of the mighty and casts down the strength of its confidence.

  • Prov 18:10
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    10The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous run into it, and are safe.

  • Prov 13:7-8
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    7There is one who makes himself rich, yet has nothing; there is one who makes himself poor, yet has great riches.

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  • Prov 11:28
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    28He who trusts in his riches shall fall, but the righteous shall flourish like a branch.

  • Jer 9:23
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    23Thus says the LORD, 'Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches:

  • Deut 8:17
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    17And you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.

  • Luke 12:21
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    21So is he that lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

  • Prov 19:3-4
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    3The foolishness of man perverts his way, and his heart frets against the LORD.

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  • Prov 13:11
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    11Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he who gathers by labor shall increase.

  • Ezek 28:5
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    5By your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches:

  • Eccl 9:14
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    14There was a little city with few men in it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great siege works against it.

  • Prov 16:18
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  • Prov 14:20
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    20The poor is hated even by his own neighbor, but the rich have many friends.

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    6Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are troubled in vain: he heaps up riches, and does not know who shall gather them.

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10But the rich in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he will pass away.

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  • Ps 62:10
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    10Trust not in oppression, and do not become vain in robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

  • Prov 26:12
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    12Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

  • Prov 25:28
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    28Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls.

  • Luke 12:17-18
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    17And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room to store my crops?

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  • Prov 23:4
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    4Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own wisdom.

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    23A man's pride will bring him low; but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.

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    16He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.

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    22He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye and does not consider that poverty shall come upon him.

  • Ps 37:16
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    16A little that the righteous has is better than the riches of many wicked.

  • Prov 6:11
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  • Job 18:7
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    7The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

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    14Who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

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    2For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity is found to be hateful.

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    9Woe to him who covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

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    6Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.

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    25He who is of a proud heart stirs up strife, but he who puts his trust in the LORD shall be made prosperous.

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    3The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high; who says in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

  • Eccl 9:16
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    16Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength; nevertheless, the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

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    13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners to their hurt.

  • Ps 10:2
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    2The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be caught in the devices they have imagined.