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Proverbs 18:11
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The wealth of the rich is his fortified city;in his imagination it is like a high wall.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, Like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
A rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall in his imagination.
A rich person's wealth is his strong city, And like a high wall in his own imagination.
Rich people trust their wealth to protect them. They think it is like the high walls of a city.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, And like a high wall [of protection] in his own imagination and conceit.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, Like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
The rich mans riches are his strong citie: and as an hie wall in his imagination.
A rich man's wealth is his strong city,And like a high wall in his own delusion.
A rich man's wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.
The wealth of the rich is his fortified city, like a high wall, in his own imagination.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own imagination.
The rich think their wealth will protect them. They think it is a strong fortress.
The rich mans wealth is his strong city; and his dwelling place is fenced by a strong wall.
Rich people, however, imagine that their wealth protects them like high, strong walls around a city.
The wealth of the rich is his strong city, and like a wall, it is high in his imagination.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his imagination.
But ye rich mas goodes are his stronge holde, yee he taketh them for an hye wall roude aboute him.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, And as a high wall in his own imagination.
The property of a man of wealth is his strong town, and it is as a high wall in the thoughts of his heart.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own conceit.
The rich mans wealth is his strong citie: and as an high wall in his owne conceit.
The rich mans goodes are his strong citie, and as an high wall in his owne conceipt.
The wealth of a rich man is a strong city; and its glory casts a broad shadow.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own imagination.
The catel of a riche man is the citee of his strengthe; and as a stronge wal cumpassinge hym.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, And as a high wall in his own imagination.
The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city, and as a high wall in his own conceit.
The wealth of a rich person is like a strong city, and it is like a high wall in his imagination.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, And like a high wall in his own esteem.
The rich think of their wealth as a strong defense; they imagine it to be a high wall of safety.
The rich man's money is his strong city, and he thinks it is like a high wall.
The wealth of the rich is their strong city; in their imagination it is like a high wall.
The substance of a rich man, is his strong city, and like a high wall, in his imagination.
The substance of the rich man is the city of his strength, and as a strong wall compassing him about.
A rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall protecting him.
The wealth of the rich [is] the city of his strength, And as a wall set on high in his own imagination.
The rich think their wealth protects them; they imagine themselves safe behind it.
A rich man's wealth is his strong city, And like a high wall in his own imagination.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 10:15, Proverbs 11:4, Deuteronomy 32:31, Job 31:24, Job 31:25, Psalms 49:6-9, Psalms 52:5-7, Psalms 62:10, Psalms 62:11, Ecclesiastes 7:12, Luke 12:19-21
Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 6:54 - castles Proverbs 28:11 - rich Jeremiah 48:36 - the riches Ezekiel 28:4 - General Habakkuk 2:9 - set Zephaniah 1:18 - their silver Mark 10:24 - trust Luke 18:24 - How
Cross-References
Abraham bowed with his face to the ground and thought, "I am almost a hundred years old. How can I become a father? And Sarah is ninety. How can she have a child?" So he started laughing.
Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was well past the age for having children.
So she laughed and said to herself, "Now that I am worn out and my husband is old, will I really know such happiness?"
since his family will become a great and powerful nation that will be a blessing to all other nations on earth.
Now I am going down to see for myself if those people really are that bad. If they aren't, I want to know about it."
Rachel said, "Father, please don't be angry with me for not getting up; I am having my period." Laban kept on searching, but still did not find the idols.
When a woman has her monthly period, she remains unclean for seven days, and if you touch her, you must take a bath, but you remain unclean until evening.
But they did not have children. Elizabeth could not have any, and both Zechariah and Elizabeth were already old.
Zechariah said to the angel, "How will I know this is going to happen? My wife and I are both very old."
Your relative Elizabeth is also going to have a son, even though she is old. No one thought she could ever have a baby, but in three months she will have a son.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city,.... In which he dwells, over which he presides; in which he places his trust and confidence, and thinks himself safe from every enemy and from all trouble: as one s observes,
"the abundance of a rich man's wealth he conceives to be as it were the abundance of people in a "city"; the telling of his money he imagines to be the walking of people up and down the streets; his bags standing thick together to be so many houses standing close one to the other; his iron barred chests to be so mary bulwarks; his bonds and bills to be his cannons and demi-cannons, his great ordinance; and in the midst of these he thinketh himself environed with a "great wall", which no trouble is able to leap over, which no misery is able to break through.''
As it follows;
and as a high wall in his own conceit: which not only separates and distinguishes him from others; but, as he imagines, will secure him from all dangers, and will be abiding, lasting, and durable: but all this is only "in his own conceit", or "imagery" t; in the chambers of his imagery, as Jarchi, referring to Ezekiel 8:12; where the same word is used; for this wall shall not stand; these riches cannot secure themselves, they take wing and fly away; and much less the owner of them, not from public calamities, nor from personal diseases of body, nor from death, nor from wrath to come.
s Jermin its loc. t במשכיתו "in imaginatione ejus", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator, Cocceius, Gejerus, Schultens; "in imagine sua", Mercerus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
What the name of the Lord is to the righteous Proverbs 18:10, that wealth is to the rich. He flees to it for refuge as to a strong city; but it is so only “in his own conceit” or imagination.
High - In the Hebrew the same word as “safe” Proverbs 18:10, and manifestly used in reference to it.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 18:11. The rich man's wealth — See Proverbs 10:15.
