Proverbs 18:11
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, And as a high wall in his own imagination.
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- Proverbs 10:15 The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
- Psalm 52:5–7 God will likewise destroy thee for ever; He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, And root thee out of the land of the living. [Selah The righteous also shall see it, and fear, And shall laugh at him, saying, Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness.
- Ecclesiastes 7:12 For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it.