Proverbs 18:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit. ”

• Proverbs 18:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  What the name of the Lord is to the righteous Proverbs 18:10 , that wealth is to the rich. He flees to it for refuge as to a strong city; but it is so only “in his own conceit” or imagination....

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• Proverbs 18:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Proverbs 18:1 . MT yields no satisfactory sense. The LXX reads The man who wishes to separate from his friends seeks pretexts, but is always liable to reproach. Frankenberg renders the alienated f...

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• Proverbs 18:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  as . [it is]as. conceit . imagination. See note on Proverbs 25:11 .

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• Proverbs 18:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit. The rich man's wealth - See Proverbs 10:15 .

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• Proverbs 18:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit. The rich man's wealth (is) his strong city ( Proverbs 10:15 ), and as an high wall in his own conceit - in c...

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• Proverbs 18:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. Lit. 'One who separates himself seeks desire, quarrels with all wisdom.' This would mean that a solitary recluse follows his own wishes and opposes everything reasonable. But LXX suggests, 'Th...

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• Proverbs 18:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 19 THE EVIL OF ISOLATION "He that separates himself follows after his own desire, but against all sound wisdom he shows his teeth."- Proverbs 18:1 FROM the value of friendship there is...

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• Proverbs 18:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Verse Proverbs 18:1 . The protest of this proverb is against the self-satisfaction which makes a man separate himself from the thoughts and opinions of others. Such a one finally "rages against," or...

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• Proverbs 18:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit. Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility. He that answereth a matter before he h...

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• Proverbs 18:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city ,.... In which he dwells, over which he presides; in which he places his trust and confidence, and thinks himself safe from every enemy and from all troubl...

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• Proverbs 18:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit. Ver. 11. The rich man's wealth is his strong city.] It is hard to have wealth, and not to trust to it. Matthew 1...

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• Proverbs 18:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The name of the Lord That is, the Lord, as he hath revealed himself in his works, and especially in his word, by his promises, and the declarations of his infinite perfections, and of his good-will...

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• Proverbs 18:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        11 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.       Having described the firm and faithful defence of the righteous man ( Proverbs 18:10 Proverbs...

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• Proverbs 18:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He trusts to his wealth, as that which will either enable him to resist his enemy, or at least purchase his favour.

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• Proverbs 18:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Fool Destroys Others And Is Therefore Himself Destroyed, But The Righteous Are Kept Safe ( Proverbs 18:8-13 ). In this subsection there is an emphasis on the way in which a fool destroys a com...

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• Proverbs 18:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 18:10 . Safe, or, lifted high . MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 18:10-11 TWO CITADELS I. The citadel of him who trusts in the Lord . “ The name of the Lord .” God...

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• Proverbs 18:11 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Proverbs 18:10-11 We have here the "strong tower" and the "strong city;" the man lifted up above danger on the battlements of the one, and the man fancying himself to be high above it (and only fa...

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• Proverbs 18:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 18:1 . Through desire a man having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom. יתגלע yithgalâ; this word occurs but thrice, and only in the book of Proverbs; viz. here...

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• Proverbs 18:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Proverbs 18:1 This is a difficult verse, and has obtained various interpretations. The Authorized Version gives, Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and inte...

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• Proverbs 18:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 11. The rich man's wealth is his strong city and as an high wall in his own conceit, his own foolish imagination; for it is not a tower like the name of the Lord.

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• Proverbs 18:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 32:31 ; Ecclesiastes 7:12 ; Job 31:24 ; Job 31:25 ; Luke 12:19-21 ; Proverbs 10:15 ; Proverbs 11:4 ; Psalms 49:6-9 ; Psalms 52:5-7 ; Psalms 62:10 ; Psalms 62:11

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