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Proverbs 18:11

The rich think their wealth protects them; they imagine themselves safe behind it.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Confidence;   Pride;   Rich, the;   Thompson Chain Reference - False;   Riches, Earthly;   Security-Insecurity;   Trust in Riches;   The Topic Concordance - Wealth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Walls;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wealth;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Walls;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Imagery;   Imagination;   Red Sea;   Wealth;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Talmud;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The wealth of the rich is his fortified city;in his imagination it is like a high wall.
Hebrew Names Version
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, Like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
King James Version
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
English Standard Version
A rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall in his imagination.
New American Standard Bible
A rich person's wealth is his strong city, And like a high wall in his own imagination.
New Century Version
Rich people trust their wealth to protect them. They think it is like the high walls of a city.
Amplified Bible
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, And like a high wall [of protection] in his own imagination and conceit.
World English Bible
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, Like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The rich mans riches are his strong citie: and as an hie wall in his imagination.
Legacy Standard Bible
A rich man's wealth is his strong city,And like a high wall in his own delusion.
Berean Standard Bible
A rich man's wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.
Contemporary English Version
the rich think their money is a wall of protection.
Complete Jewish Bible
The wealth of the rich is his fortified city, like a high wall, in his own imagination.
Darby Translation
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own imagination.
Easy-to-Read Version
The rich think their wealth will protect them. They think it is a strong fortress.
George Lamsa Translation
The rich mans wealth is his strong city; and his dwelling place is fenced by a strong wall.
Good News Translation
Rich people, however, imagine that their wealth protects them like high, strong walls around a city.
Lexham English Bible
The wealth of the rich is his strong city, and like a wall, it is high in his imagination.
Literal Translation
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his imagination.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But ye rich mas goodes are his stronge holde, yee he taketh them for an hye wall roude aboute him.
American Standard Version
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, And as a high wall in his own imagination.
Bible in Basic English
The property of a man of wealth is his strong town, and it is as a high wall in the thoughts of his heart.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own conceit.
King James Version (1611)
The rich mans wealth is his strong citie: and as an high wall in his owne conceit.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The rich mans goodes are his strong citie, and as an high wall in his owne conceipt.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The wealth of a rich man is a strong city; and its glory casts a broad shadow.
English Revised Version
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own imagination.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The catel of a riche man is the citee of his strengthe; and as a stronge wal cumpassinge hym.
Update Bible Version
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, And as a high wall in his own imagination.
Webster's Bible Translation
The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city, and as a high wall in his own conceit.
New English Translation
The wealth of a rich person is like a strong city, and it is like a high wall in his imagination.
New King James Version
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, And like a high wall in his own esteem.
New Living Translation
The rich think of their wealth as a strong defense; they imagine it to be a high wall of safety.
New Life Bible
The rich man's money is his strong city, and he thinks it is like a high wall.
New Revised Standard
The wealth of the rich is their strong city; in their imagination it is like a high wall.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The substance of a rich man, is his strong city, and like a high wall, in his imagination.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The substance of the rich man is the city of his strength, and as a strong wall compassing him about.
Revised Standard Version
A rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall protecting him.
Young's Literal Translation
The wealth of the rich [is] the city of his strength, And as a wall set on high in his own imagination.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A rich man's wealth is his strong city, And like a high wall in his own imagination.

Contextual Overview

11 The rich think their wealth protects them; they imagine themselves safe behind it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 10:15, Proverbs 11:4, Deuteronomy 32:31, Job 31:24, Job 31:25, Psalms 49:6-9, Psalms 52:5-7, Psalms 62:10, Psalms 62:11, Ecclesiastes 7:12, Luke 12:19-21

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 6:54 - castles Proverbs 28:11 - rich Jeremiah 48:36 - the riches Ezekiel 28:4 - General Habakkuk 2:9 - set Zephaniah 1:18 - their silver Mark 10:24 - trust Luke 18:24 - How

Cross-References

Genesis 17:17
Abraham fell flat on his face. And then he laughed, thinking, "Can a hundred-year-old man father a son? And can Sarah, at ninety years, have a baby?"
Genesis 17:24
Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised. His son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised. Abraham and Ishmael were circumcised the same day together with all the servants of his household, those born there and those purchased from outsiders—all were circumcised with him.
Genesis 18:11
Abraham and Sarah were old by this time, very old. Sarah was far past the age for having babies. Sarah laughed within herself, "An old woman like me? Get pregnant? With this old man of a husband?"
Leviticus 15:19
"When a woman has a discharge of blood, the impurity of her menstrual period lasts seven days. Anyone who touches her is unclean until evening. Everything on which she lies or sits during her period is unclean. Anyone who touches her bed or anything on which she sits must wash his clothes and bathe in water; he remains unclean until evening.
Luke 1:18
Zachariah said to the angel, "Do you expect me to believe this? I'm an old man and my wife is an old woman."
Luke 1:36
"And did you know that your cousin Elizabeth conceived a son, old as she is? Everyone called her barren, and here she is six months pregnant! Nothing, you see, is impossible with God." And Mary said, Yes, I see it all now: I'm the Lord's maid, ready to serve. Let it be with me just as you say. Then the angel left her.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city,.... In which he dwells, over which he presides; in which he places his trust and confidence, and thinks himself safe from every enemy and from all trouble: as one s observes,

"the abundance of a rich man's wealth he conceives to be as it were the abundance of people in a "city"; the telling of his money he imagines to be the walking of people up and down the streets; his bags standing thick together to be so many houses standing close one to the other; his iron barred chests to be so mary bulwarks; his bonds and bills to be his cannons and demi-cannons, his great ordinance; and in the midst of these he thinketh himself environed with a "great wall", which no trouble is able to leap over, which no misery is able to break through.''

As it follows;

and as a high wall in his own conceit: which not only separates and distinguishes him from others; but, as he imagines, will secure him from all dangers, and will be abiding, lasting, and durable: but all this is only "in his own conceit", or "imagery" t; in the chambers of his imagery, as Jarchi, referring to Ezekiel 8:12; where the same word is used; for this wall shall not stand; these riches cannot secure themselves, they take wing and fly away; and much less the owner of them, not from public calamities, nor from personal diseases of body, nor from death, nor from wrath to come.

s Jermin its loc. t במשכיתו "in imaginatione ejus", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator, Cocceius, Gejerus, Schultens; "in imagine sua", Mercerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

What the name of the Lord is to the righteous Proverbs 18:10, that wealth is to the rich. He flees to it for refuge as to a strong city; but it is so only “in his own conceit” or imagination.

High - In the Hebrew the same word as “safe” Proverbs 18:10, and manifestly used in reference to it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 18:11. The rich man's wealth — See Proverbs 10:15.


 
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