John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 4. Riches profit not in the day of wrath , etc.] When God takes away the soul, and summons to judgment, and brings to it; and as riches profited not Rome Pagan, in the day of the Lamb’s wrath upon it; so neither will they profit Rome Papal, when it will come in remembrance before God, to give it the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath; (see Revelation 6:15-17 18:15-17); but righteousness delivereth from death ; from the curse of a corporeal death; from the power of a spiritual one; and from dying the second or an eternal one; (see Gill on “ Proverbs 10:2”); the Targum is, “from an evil death.”
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 4 - Riches will stand men in no stead in the day of death.
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