24 “If I have put my trust in gold(A)
    or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’(B)

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“Here now is the man
    who did not make God his stronghold(A)
but trusted in his great wealth(B)
    and grew strong by destroying others!”

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11 The wealth of the rich is their fortified city;(A)
    they imagine it a wall too high to scale.

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The poor are shunned by all their relatives—
    how much more do their friends avoid them!(A)
Though the poor pursue them with pleading,
    they are nowhere to be found.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.

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