Verse 11
The rich mans riches are his strong citie: and as an hie wall in his imagination.
Referenced Verses
- Prov 10:15 : 15 The riche mans goodes are his strong citie: but the feare of the needie is their pouertie.
- Prov 11:4 : 4 Riches auaile not in the day of wrath: but righteousnes deliuereth from death.
- Eccl 7:12 : 12 (7:14) For man shall rest in the shadowe of wisedome, and in the shadowe of siluer: but the excellencie of the knowledge of wisedome giueth life to the possessers thereof.
- Luke 12:19-21 : 19 And I wil say to my soule, Soule, thou hast much goods laide vp for many yeeres: liue at ease, eate, drinke and take thy pastime. 20 But God said vnto him, O foole, this night wil they fetch away thy soule fro thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast prouided? 21 So is he that gathereth riches to himselfe, and is not riche in God.
- Deut 32:31 : 31 For their god is not as our God, euen our enemies being iudges.
- Job 31:24-25 : 24 If I made gold mine hope, or haue sayd to the wedge of golde, Thou art my confidence, 25 If I reioyced because my substance was great, or because mine hand had gotten much,
- Ps 49:6-9 : 6 They trust in their goods, and boast them selues in the multitude of their riches. 7 Yet a man can by no meanes redeeme his brother: he can not giue his raunsome to God, 8 (So precious is the redemption of their soules, and the continuance for euer) 9 That he may liue still for euer, and not see the graue.
- Ps 52:5-7 : 5 So shal God destroy thee for euer: he shal take thee and plucke thee out of thy tabernacle, and roote thee out of ye land of the liuing. Selah. 6 The righteous also shall see it, and feare, and shall laugh at him, saying, 7 Beholde the man that tooke not God for his strength, but trusted vnto the multitude of his riches, and put his strength in his malice.
- Ps 62:10-11 : 10 Trust not in oppression nor in robberie: be not vaine: if riches increase, set not your heart thereon. 11 God spake once or twise, I haue heard it, that power belongeth vnto God,