Proverbs 28:11

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Summary

Proverbs 28:11

The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.

Rich

1 Timothy 6:17

His own conceit

The poor

Bible References

Rich

The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own imagination.

Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:

For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I am intelligent; and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and, like a valiant man, I have brought down them that sit on thrones;

behold, thou art wiser than Daniel! nothing secret is obscure for thee;

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will cleave to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Let no one deceive himself: if any one thinks himself to be wise among you in this world, let him become foolish, that he may be wise.

Enjoin on those rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to trust on the uncertainty of riches; but in the God who affords us all things richly for our enjoyment;

His own conceit

A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men that answer discreetly.

Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and intelligent in their own esteem!

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, that ye may not be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the nations be come in;

Have the same respect one for another, not minding high things, but going along with the lowly: be not wise in your own eyes:

The poor

He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.

Better is a poor man that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

It is not the great that are wise; neither do the aged understand judgment.

and there was found in it a poor wise man, who by his wisdom delivered the city; but no man remembered that poor man.