Verse Lens · Context pointer
Proverbs 10:15 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 15. 15The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
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Role in This Section
This verse opens with “The rich man’s wealth is his strong city” and develops the line through “the destruction of the poor is their poverty”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 10:12–17
Read Proverbs 10:15 with 10:12–17. Read alone, “The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of…” could turn a compressed observation, warning, comparison, or command into a guarantee or complete policy. The full unit establishes: uses contrastive parallelism to place “Hatred stirreth up strifes” against “love covereth all sins”; by 10:17, it uses contrastive parallelism to place “He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction” against “he that refuseth reproof erreth”. Together the unit concentrates on speech, listening, truth, and relational consequence, instruction, correction, and formation, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception within “First Solomonic sentence-saying collection.”
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Proverbs 10:12–17 — Speech, listening, truth, and relational consequence — Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sinsSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, canonical order, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Exact location: Proverbs 10:12–17, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Proverbs
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology used only for the exact unit's lexical, grammatical, parallel, superscription, number-saying, and acrostic questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Prov.xml, OSIS 10:12-10:17
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