John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 2:19

Verſ. 19. And who knoweth whether he ſhall bee a wiſe man] A friend or an enemy, an acquaintance or a meer ſtranger: riches oft change maſters. How many by a juſt hand of God dye childleſs; or elſe leave that they have to dingthrifts, that will ſpend it as merrily, as ever their parents got it miſerably? ſcatter with a fork as it were, what they have wretchedly raked together? Our Henry 2. ſome few hours before hee died, ſaw a liſt of their names, who conſpired with the King of France, and Earl Richard (his ſonne and ſucceſſor) againſt him; And finding therein his ſon John (whom hee had made Earl of Cornwal, Sommerſet, Nottingham, Derby, and Lancaſter, and given him a vaſt eſtate) to bee the firſt; he fell into a grievous paſſion, both curſing his ſons, and the day wherein himſelf was born:Dan. hiſt. 112. and in that diſtemperature departs the world, which ſo often himſelf had diſtempered.