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15 The wealth of the rich is the city of his strength;
    the ruin of the poor is their poverty.

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

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20 The poor is disliked even by his neighbor,
    but the lovers of the rich are many.

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

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11 The wealth of the rich is his strong city,[a]
    and like a wall, it is high in his imagination.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 18:11 Literally “a city of his strength”

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

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23 The poor may speak entreaties,
    but the rich will answer roughly.

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23 The poor plead for mercy,
    but the rich answer harshly.

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Rich and poor have much in common;
    Yahweh is the maker of all of them.

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Rich and poor have this in common:
    The Lord is the Maker of them all.(A)

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The rich will rule over the poor,
    and the borrower is a slave of the lender.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:7 Literally “the borrower belonging to a man”

The rich rule over the poor,
    and the borrower is slave to the lender.

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16 He who oppresses the poor in order to enrich himself,
    or gives to the rich, will come to poverty.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 22:16 Literally “only loss”

16 One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth
    and one who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty.

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Better to be poor and walking in one’s integrity
    than to be crooked of ways when one is rich.

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Better the poor whose walk is blameless
    than the rich whose ways are perverse.(A)

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11 A man of wealth is wise in his own eyes,
    but the intelligent poor sees through him.

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11 The rich are wise in their own eyes;
    one who is poor and discerning sees how deluded they are.

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