Proverbs 18:11
The chattel of a rich man is the city of his strength; and as a strong wall compassing him. (A rich person’s possessions (is) the city of his strength; and (they be) like a strong wall surrounding him, (or so he thinketh).)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
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
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:31For our God is not as the gods of them, and our enemies be judges (of this). (For our enemies have no god like our God, ours is strong, and they know that their gods be weak.)
Psalms 49:6Which trust in their own virtue (or They who trust in their wealth); and have glory in the multitude of their riches.
Psalms 52:5Therefore God shall destroy thee into the end, he shall draw thee out by the root, and he shall make thee to pass away from thy tabernacle; and thy root from the land of living men. (And so God shall destroy thee, or ruin thee, forever, yea, he shall draw thee out, and he shall make thee go far away from thy home; he shall root thee out from the land of the living.)
Proverbs 10:15The chattel of a rich man is the city of his strength; the dread of poor men is the neediness of them. (The substance of a rich man is his strong city; the fear of the poor is their own neediness.)
Proverbs 28:11A rich man seemeth wise to himself; but a poor man prudent shall search him. (A rich person seemeth wise to himself; but a prudent poor person shall search him out, and find him wanting.)
Jeremiah 9:22Speak thou, The Lord saith these things, And the dead body of a man shall fall down as a turd on the face of the country (side), and as hay behind the back of the mower, and none there is that gathereth (or and there is no one who gathereth 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 →