The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty - i:e., in the estimation of the rich and the poor respectively. Though the feelings are distinct, the elated feeling of "the rich," because he has "wealth," and the depressed feeling of the poor, because he has none-yet both alike are guilty of the same error; they overestimate wealth. The rich fancy that their wealth, as their "strong city," will keep them safe from all evil; and the poor are so overwhelmed by poverty as to fear "destruction" by it. But rich and poor forget that "the name of the Lord is" the only "strong tower" (Proverbs 18:10-12; Isaiah 26:1; Psalms 52:5-7).