Proverbs 10:15
The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
BSB
ASV
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
KJV
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
But riches in themselves are not blameable. For the ransom of a man's life are his riches, for he who gives to the poor, redeems his soul. There is therefore scope for virtue even in these material riches. Ye are as it were pilots, in a great sea. If any man steers well his ship, he quickly passes over the sea, and reaches his haven, but he who cannot manage his property is sunk together with his burthen. Wherefore it is written, The rich man's strength is his strong city.
Destruction - That which crushes, throws into ruins. Wealth secures its possessors against many dangers; poverty exposes men to worse evils than itself, meanness, servility, and cowardice. Below the surface there lies, it may be, a grave irony against the rich; see Pro 18:11.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Proverbs 14:20The poor man is hated even by his neighbor, but many are those who love the rich.
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Wealth attracts many friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Psalms 52:7“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
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This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release…
Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
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Proverbs 19:7All the brothers of a poor man hate him—how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.
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You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
The poor man pleads for mercy, but the rich man answers harshly.
Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.
My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.
