Proverbs 10:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Destruction - That which crushes, throws into ruins. Wealth secures its possessors against many dangers; poverty exposes men to worse evils than itself, meanness, servility, and cowardice. Below the surface there lies, it may be, a grave irony against the rich; see Proverbs 18:11.

Proverbs 10:15

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