John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 9:17

Verſ. 17. The words of wiſe men are heard in quiet] The ſubmiſs words of a poor man ſpeaking with good underſtanding, are rather heard than the big and boiſterous words of proud fools. Fuit Neſtorius homo indoctus, ſuperbus, audax & magnae loquentia, ſaith Zanchy. Zanch Miſcel. Neſtorius the Heretick was an ignorant, proud, bold, big-ſpoken man, and prevailed very much thereby with ſome ſilly-ſimples. How much better Chryſoſtome, of whom it is ſaid, that hee was graviter ſuavis, & ſuaviter gravis; gravely ſweet, and ſweetly grave, and hee was much admired for it? Gentle ſhowers and dews that diſtill leaſurely comfort the earth; when daſhing ſtorms drown the ſeed. The words of wiſe men are by one well compared to the River Indus, Indus fluvius, & ſerere Orientem dicitur & rigare. Minut. Felix in Octav. which is ſaid both to ſow the Eaſt, and to water it; for ſo it may bee ſaid of the words of the wiſe, that they are both ſemina & flumina, both ſeeds and rivers: ſeeds, becauſe they ſow goodneſs in their hearers; rivers, becauſe they water that which is ſown to make it to grow in them. But the cry of fools is like a violent torrent, which waſheth away that which it ſoweth, and doth not ſuffer it to continue in the ground.

More than the cry of him that ruleth among fools] Tremellius reads it, cum ſtolidis ſuis, with his fools; i, e. cum ſuo ſtulto ſenatu, with his fooliſh Counſellors, who do commonly comply with him, to obtrude with great authority his unreaſonable and tyrannical edicts and mandates.