John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 7:12

Verſ. 12. For wiſdome is a defence, and money, &c.] Heb. a ſhadow, viz. to thoſe that have ſeen the Sun, (as in the former verſe) and are ſcorched with the heat of it, that are under the miſeries and moleſtations of life: Wiſdome in this caſe is a wall of defence, and a well of life: Money alſo is a thorn-hedge, of very good uſe. Job 1.10. ſo it be ſet without the affections, and get not into the heart, as the Phariſees [non-Latin text not transcribed] did, Luk. 11.41. their riches were got within them, and by choaking the ſeed, kept wiſdome out.

Wiſdome giveth life to them that have it] For God is both a Sun, and a ſhield or ſhadow, he will give grace and glory, &c. Pſal. 84.11. Life in any ſenſe is a ſweet mercy; but the life of grace and of glory may well challenge the precellency: No marvel therefore though wiſdome bear away the bell from wealth, which as it ſerves only to the uſes of life natural; ſo being miſuſed, it drowns many a ſoul in perdition and deſtruction, 1 Tim. 6.9. and proves the root of all evil, ch. 16.10. yea it taketh away the life of the owner thereof, Prov. 1.19. See the Note there. It is confeſſed, that wealth ſometimes giveth life to them that have it, as it did to thoſe ten Jewes that had treaſures in the field, Jer. 41.8. and doth to thoſe condemned men that can take a leaſe of their lives. But Nabals wealth had undone him, if Abigails wiſdome had not interpoſed: And in the other life, money bears no maſtery. Adam had it not in Paradiſe, and in Heaven there is no need of it.