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Louis Segond
Proverbes 10:15
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Les biens du riche sont la ville de sa force; mais la pauvreté des misérables est leur ruine.
Les biens du riche sont sa ville forte; mais la pauvreté des misérables est leur ruine.
Les biens du riche sont sa ville forte; la ruine des misérables, c'est leur pauvreté.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
rich: Proverbs 18:11, Job 31:24, Job 31:25, Psalms 49:6, Psalms 52:7, Ecclesiastes 7:12, Jeremiah 9:23, Mark 10:24, Luke 12:19, 1 Timothy 6:17
the destruction: Proverbs 14:20, Proverbs 19:7, Proverbs 22:22, Proverbs 22:23, Micah 2:1, Micah 2:2
Reciprocal: Proverbs 11:28 - that Proverbs 12:12 - net Proverbs 19:4 - the poor Ecclesiastes 9:16 - the poor Jeremiah 49:4 - trusted
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city,.... What a fortified city is to persons in time of war, that is a rich man's wealth to him; by it he can defend himself from the injuries of others, and support himself and family in times of public calamity; for money is a defence, and answers all things, Ecclesiastes 7:12. Or his wealth is so in his own apprehension and conceit; he puts his trust and confidence in it, and thinks himself safe and secure by it; when he is trusting to uncertain riches, which will fail him; these may fly away from him in life, and leave him exposed to distress and danger; and, however, will not secure him at death from the wrath of God and everlasting destruction. Or he is lifted up with his riches, is in high spirits, and despises others; thinking himself safe, as in a strong castle, and fears nothing, distresses, diseases, or death;
the destruction of the poor [is] their poverty: or their poverty is their consternation, as the word h signifies, it frightens them; they, knowing their circumstances, are afraid of everybody and of every thing; not being able to defend themselves against their enemies, or support themselves in times of public calamity, as war, famine, or pestilence.
h מחתה "consternatio", Mercerus, Gejerus, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Destruction - That which crushes, throws into ruins. Wealth secures its possessors against many dangers; poverty exposes men to worse evils than itself, meanness, servility, and cowardice. Below the surface there lies, it may be, a grave irony against the rich; see Proverbs 18:11.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 10:15. The rich man's wealth is his strong city — Behold a mystery in providence; there is not a rich man on earth but becomes such by means of the poor! Property comes from the labour of the poor, and the king himself is served of the field. How unjust, diabolically so, is it to despise or oppress those by whose labour all property is acquired!
The destruction of the poor is their poverty. — A man in abject poverty never arises out of this pit. They have no nucleus about which property may aggregate. The poet spoke well: -
Haud facile emergunt, quorum virtutibus obstat
Res angusta domi.
"They rarely emerge from poverty, whose exertions
are cramped by want at home."
