Proverbs 18:11
Rich people see their wealth as a fortified town—it's like a high wall in their imagination.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
In Context
10The Lord is a protective tower that good people can run to and be safe.
12Pride leads to destruction; humility goes before honor.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:31The rock they rely on is not like our Rock, as even our enemies admit.
Psalms 49:6They trust in their wealth; they boast about their riches,
Psalms 52:5But God will strike you down so hard you'll never get up. He will grab hold of you and drag you from your tent. He will tear you out of the land of the living. Selah.
Proverbs 10:15The wealth of the rich provides them protection, while the poverty of the poor ruins them.
Proverbs 28:11The rich see themselves as wise, but poor people with insight see right through them.
Jeremiah 9:22Tell everyone this is what the Lord says: Dead bodies will be left where they fall like manure in the fields, lying there like stalks of freshly-cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to collect them.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 18:11
10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. Here is, 1. God's sufficiency for the saints: His name is a strong tower for them, in which they may take rest when they are weary and take sanctuary when they are pursued, where they may be lifted up above their enemies and fortified against them. There is enough in God, and in the discoveries which he has made of himself to us, to make us easy at all times. The wealth laid up in this tower is enough to enrich them, to be a… Read the whole commentary →