¹⁵ The rich man’s wealth is his strong city:
    the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

²⁰ The poor is hated even of his own neighbour:
    but the rich hath many friends.

¹¹ The rich man’s wealth is his strong city,
    and as an high wall in his own conceit.

²³ The poor useth intreaties;
    but the rich answereth roughly.

² The rich and poor meet together:
    the Lord is the maker of them all.

⁷ The rich ruleth over the poor,
    and the borrower is servant to the lender.

¹⁶ He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches,
    and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

⁶ Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness,
than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

¹¹ The rich man is wise in his own conceit;
but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.