The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
KJV
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4 additional translationsASV
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
WEB
The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
YLT
The wealth of the rich is his strong city, The ruin of the poor is their poverty.
DBT
The rich man's wealth is his strong city; the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentProverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.
- Author
- Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
- Date
- Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.