Observe, 1. Our riches will fail us when we are in the greatest need:
He that trusts in them, as if they would secure him the favour of God
and be his protection and portion, shall fall, as a man who lays his
weight on a broken reed, which will not only disappoint him, but run
into his hand and pierce him. 2. Our righteousness will stand us in
stead when our riches fail us: The righteous shall then flourish as a
branch, the branch of righteousness, like a tree whose leaf shall not
wither, Ps. i. 3. Even in death, when riches fail men, the bones of the
righteous shall flourish as a herb, Isa. lxvi. 14. When those that take
root in the world wither those that are grafted into Christ and partake
of his root and fatness shall be fruitful and flourishing.