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New American Standard Bible

Proverbs 18:11

A rich person's wealth is his strong city, And like a high wall in his own imagination.

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

English Standard Version
A rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall in his imagination.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The rich mans riches are his strong citie: and as an hie wall in his imagination.
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
The rich think their wealth will protect them. They think it is a strong fortress.
Amplified Bible
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, And like a high wall [of protection] in his own imagination and conceit.
American Standard Version
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, And as a high wall in his own 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.
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.
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.
Berean Standard Bible
A rich man's wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.
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.
New Century Version
Rich people trust their wealth to protect them. They think it is like the high walls of a city.
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.
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.
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.
King James Version
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The rich mans goodes are his strong citie, and as an high wall in his owne conceipt.
New Revised Standard
The wealth of the rich is their strong city; in their imagination it is like a high wall.
Darby Translation
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a 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.
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.
World English Bible
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, Like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
Revised Standard Version
A rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall protecting him.
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.
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But ye rich mas goodes are his stronge holde, yee he taketh them for an hye wall roude aboute him.
THE MESSAGE
The rich think their wealth protects them; they imagine themselves safe behind it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
A rich man's wealth is his strong city, And like a high wall in his own imagination.
Legacy Standard Bible
A rich man's wealth is his strong city,And like a high wall in his own delusion.

Contextual Overview

11 A rich person's wealth is his strong city, And like a high wall in his own imagination.

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
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to a man a hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth to a child?"
Genesis 17:24
Now Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis 18:11
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; Sarah was past childbearing.
Genesis 18:12
So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, "After I have become old, am I to have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
Genesis 18:18
since Abraham will certainly become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?
Genesis 18:21
"I will go down now and see whether they have done entirely as the outcry, which has come to Me indicates; and if not, I will know."
Genesis 31:35
And she said to her father, "May my lord not be angry that I cannot stand in your presence, because the way of women is upon me." So he searched but did not find the household idols.
Leviticus 15:19
'When a woman has a discharge, if her discharge in her body is blood, she shall continue in her menstrual impurity for seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening.
Luke 1:7
And yet they had no child, because Elizabeth was infertile, and they were both advanced in years.
Luke 1:18
Zechariah said to the angel, "How will I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in her years."

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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