Proverbs 10:15
The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
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- Proverbs 18:11 A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.
- Proverbs 19:7 All the brothers of a poor man hate him — how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.
- Psalm 52:7 “Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”