Parallel Verses
World English Bible
The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
New American Standard Bible
The
King James Version
The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Holman Bible
the poverty of the poor is their destruction.
International Standard Version
The rich hide within the fortress that is their wealth, but the poor are dismayed due to their poverty.
A Conservative Version
The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
American Standard Version
The rich man's wealth is his strong city: The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Amplified
The rich man’s wealth is his fortress;
The ruin of the poor is their poverty.
Bible in Basic English
The property of the man of wealth is his strong town: the poor man's need is his destruction.
Darby Translation
The rich man's wealth is his strong city; the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Julia Smith Translation
The wealth of the rich his strong city: the destruction of the poor their poverty.
King James 2000
The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the ruin of the poor is their poverty.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The wealth of the rich [is] the city of his strength; the ruin of the poor [is] their poverty.
Modern King James verseion
The rich man's wealth is his strong city; the ruin of the poor is their poverty.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The rich man's goods are his stronghold; but poverty oppresseth the poor.
NET Bible
The wealth of a rich person is like a fortified city, but the poor are brought to ruin by their poverty.
New Heart English Bible
The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
The Emphasized Bible
The substance of the rich, is his strong city, the terror of the poor, is their poverty.
Webster
The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Youngs Literal Translation
The wealth of the rich is his strong city, The ruin of the poor is their poverty.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 10:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Concerning The Mouth
14 Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin. 15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty. 16 The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin.
Cross References
Proverbs 18:11
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
Psalm 52:7
"Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."
Proverbs 19:7
All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.
Mark 10:24
The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!
Job 31:24-25
"If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, 'You are my confidence;'
Psalm 49:6
Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches --
Proverbs 14:20
The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.
Proverbs 22:22-23
Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;
Ecclesiastes 7:12
For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
Jeremiah 9:23
Thus says Yahweh, Don't let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don't let the rich man glory in his riches;
Micah 2:1-2
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Luke 12:19
I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'
1 Timothy 6:17
Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;