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21. So is he, &c.--Such is a picture of his folly here,
and of its awful issue.
and is not rich toward God--lives to amass and enjoy riches
which terminate on self, but as to the riches of God's favor,
which is life
(Ps 30:5),
of "precious" faith
(2Pe 1:1;
Jas 2:5),
of good works
(1Ti 6:18),
of wisdom which is better than rubies
(Pr 8:11)
--lives and dies a beggar!
JFB.
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