Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 14:24

24 The crown of the wise is their riches : but the foolishness of fools is folly .

They are a singular advantage and ornament to them, partly as they make their Wisdom more regarded, when the poor Man's wisdom is despised, Eccles. 9. 16. and partly as they give a Man great opportunity to discover and exercise his Wisdom or Vertue by laying out his Riches to the honour and service of God, and to the great and manifold good of the World; which also highly tends to his own glory and happiness.

But as for rich fools, for to them the general word is to be restrained from the opposite Clause, their folly is not cured, but made worse and more manifest by their riches. Their Riches find them Fools, and leave them Fools; they are not a Crown, but a reproach to them, and an occasion of their greater contempt. For the Phrase, we have the like in the Hebrew Text, 1 Sam. 1. 24. The Child Samuel was a Child. It is an elegant Figure called Antanaclasis used in all Authors.