Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
The wealth of the rich is his strong city, The ruin 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.
World English Bible
The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction 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 The wise lay up knowledge, and the mouth of a fool is near ruin. 15 The wealth of the rich is his strong city, The ruin of the poor is their poverty. 16 The wage of the righteous is for life, The increase of the wicked for sin.
Cross References
Proverbs 18:11
The wealth of the rich is the city of his strength, And as a wall set on high in his own imagination.
Psalm 52:7
'Lo, the man who maketh not God his strong place, And trusteth in the abundance of his riches, He is strong in his mischiefs.'
Proverbs 19:7
All the brethren of the poor have hated him, Surely also his friends have been far from him, He is pursuing words -- they are not!
Mark 10:24
And the disciples were astonished at his words, and Jesus again answering saith to them, 'Children, how hard is it to those trusting on the riches to enter into the reign of God!
Job 31:24-25
If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, 'My trust,'
Psalm 49:6
Those trusting on their wealth, And in the multitude of their riches, Do shew themselves foolish.
Proverbs 14:20
Even of his neighbour is the poor hated, And those loving the rich are many.
Proverbs 22:22-23
Rob not the poor because he is poor, And bruise not the afflicted in the gate.
Ecclesiastes 7:12
For wisdom is a defense, money is a defence, And the advantage of the knowledge of wisdom is, She reviveth her possessors.
Jeremiah 9:23
Thus said Jehovah: Let not the wise boast himself in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty boast himself in his might, Let not the rich boast himself in his riches,
Micah 2:1-2
Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.
Luke 12:19
and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.
1 Timothy 6:17
Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; --