Note, 1. Where righteousness is riches are, and the comforts of them:
In the house of the righteous is much treasure. Religion teaches men to
be diligent, temperate, and just, and by these means, ordinarily, the
estate is increased. But that is not all: God blesses the habitation of
the just, and that blessing makes rich without trouble. Or, if there be
not much of this world's goods, yet where there is grace there is true
treasure; and those who have but little, if they have a heart to be
therewith content, and to enjoy the comfort of that little, it is
enough; it is all riches. The righteous perhaps are not themselves
enriched, but there is treasure in their house, a blessing in store,
which their children after them may reap the benefit of. A wicked
worldly man is only for having his belly filled with those treasures,
his own sensual appetite gratified (Ps. xvii. 14); but a righteous
man's first care is for his soul and then for his seed, to have
treasure in his heart and then in his house, which his relations and
those about him may have the benefit of. 2. Where wickedness is, though
there may be riches, yet there is vexation of spirit with them: In the
revenues of the wicked, the great incomes they have, there is trouble;
for there is guilt and a curse; there is pride and passion, and envy
and contention; and those are troublesome lusts, which rob them of the
joy of their revenues and make them troublesome to their neighbours.