He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.
⛓ Read Proverbs 11 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'He who trusts in his riches will fall.' The contrast between trusting riches and the alternative directly parallels the command not to hope in 'the uncertainty of riches' but on the living God. A core wisdom antecedent for v.17.
High confidence'He who trusts in his riches will fall' directly underlies Jesus' qualification 'how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter the Kingdom.' The verbal target is the verb of trusting in wealth, not merely possessing it. The proverb supplies both diagnosis and outcome, giving solid Volume.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'He who trusts in his riches will fall' coheres with the warning that the rich enter the kingdom only with difficulty. Wisdom's critique of riches stands generally behind the camel-and-needle saying. Low volume; no verbal contact.
Low confidence