Proverbs 18:11

“The rich man’s wealth [is] his strong city, etc.] 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 trouble: as onef524 observes, “the abundance of a rich man’s wealth he conceives to be as it were the abundance of people in a “city”; the telling of his money he imagines to be the walking of people up and down the streets; his bags standing thick together to be so many houses standing close one to the other; his iron barred chests to be so mary bulwarks; his bonds and bills to be his cannons and demi-cannons, his great ordinance; and in the midst of these he thinketh himself environed with a “great…”

“contrasts with Pro 18:10 (compare Pro 10:15). Such is a vain trust (compare Psa 73:6).”

“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. High - In the Hebrew the same word as “safe” Proverbs 18:10, and manifestly used in reference to it. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Pro 10:15, Pro 11:4; Deu 32:31; Job 31:24, Job 31:25; Psa 49:6-9, Psa 52:5-7, Psa 62:10, Psa 62:11; Ecc 7:12; Luk 12:19-21 Proverbs 18:12”

“11 The possession of the righteous is his strong fort, And is like a high wall in his imagination. Line first = Pro 10:15. משׂכּית from שׂכה, Chald. סכה(whence after Megilla 14a, יסכּה, she who looks), R. שׂך, cogn. זך, to pierce, to fix, means the image as a medal, and thus also intellectually: image (conception, and particularly the imagination) of the heart ( Psa 73:7), here the fancy, conceit; Fleischer compares (Arab.) tṣwwr, to imagine something to oneself, French se figurer. Translators from the lxx to Luther incorrectly think on שׂכך (סכך), to entertain; only the Venet. is correct in the rendering: ἐν φαντασίᾳ αὐτοῦ; better than Kimchi, who, after Ezr 8:12, thinks on the…”