Proverbs 18:11
A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.
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- Proverbs 10:15 The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
- Psalm 52:5–7 Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah The righteous will see and fear; they will mock the evildoer, saying, “Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
- Ecclesiastes 7:12 For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.