Proverbs 10:15
13 In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
14 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
16 The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
17 He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
- KJV
- The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
- WEB
- The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
- ASV
- The rich man`s wealth is his strong city: The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
- DARBY
- The rich man's wealth is his strong city; the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
- BLB
- The wealth of a rich one [is] the city of his strength; the destruction of the poor [is] their poverty.
- ÅB
- Rikmanns gods er hans faste stad; de fattiges armod er deres ødeleggelse.
- OTB
- De rikes rikdom er deres festning, men fattigdom er de fattiges ruin.
- B1930
- Rikmanns gods er hans faste stad; de fattiges armod er deres ødeleggelse.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 18:11
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
Read in contextProverbs 19:7
All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.
Read in contextProverbs 14:20
The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
Read in contextPsalms 52:7
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.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 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.
Read in contextProverbs 22:22–23
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Read in contextMicah 2:1–2
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Read in contextJob 31:24–25
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
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