John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 5:14

Verſ. 14. But thoſe riches periſh by evil travel] i. e. By evil trading, trafficking, or other croſs event and accident. They waſte and wither either by vanity or violence; they ſlip out of the hand, as the panting bird, or wrigling Eel; there is no hold to bee taken of them, no truſt to bee put in them, they were never true to thoſe that truſted in them. See the Note on Prov. 23.5.