Proverbs 18:11
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
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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 shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him: 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, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.