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Read Full Chapter (Proverbs 10) Proverbs 10:15 KJV
"The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty."
Proverbs Chapter 10, Verse 15
Proverbs 10:15 in Context (Verses 12–18 KJV)
12
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
13
In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.*
14
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
15
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
16
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.
17
He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.*
18
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.