Proverbs 18:11
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable 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 you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah. The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying, “Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
- Ecclesiastes 7:12 For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.