¹⁵ The wealth of the rich is their fortified city,^(A)
    but poverty is the ruin of the poor.^(B)

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

⁷ 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)

⁷ “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!”

²⁰ The poor are shunned even by their neighbors,
    but the rich have many friends.^(A)

¹² Wisdom is a shelter
    as money is a shelter,
but the advantage of knowledge is this:
    Wisdom preserves those who have it.