Here again Solomon shows the sin and folly of those that will be rich;
they are resolved that they will be so, per fas, per nefas--right or
wrong; they will be so with all speed; they are getting hastily an
estate. 1. They have no comfort in it: They have an evil eye, that is,
they are always grieving at those that have more than they, and always
grudging their necessary expenses, because they think the former keep
them from seeming rich, the latter from being so, and between both they
must needs be perpetually uneasy. 2. They have no assurance of the
continuance of it, and yet take no thought to provide against the loss
of it: Poverty shall come upon them, and the riches which they made
wings for, that they might fly to them, will make themselves wings to
fly from them; but they are secure and improvident, and do not consider
this, that while they are making haste to be rich they are really
making haste to be poor, else they would not trust to uncertain riches.