John Trapp on Jeremiah 17:11

Ver. 11. As the Partridge ſitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not] Becauſe either ſhe is taken in an evil net, or the eggs are marred by the male, or otherwiſe, before they can be hatched.

So he that getteth riches and not by right] That cryeth —Rem, rem, quocunque modo rem, Ʋnde habeat nemo quaerit, ſed oportet habere. Right or wrong, many are reſolved to be rich, but are uſually croſſed, or elſe curſed with a bleſſing: for treaſures of wickedneſs profit not; but righteouſneſs delivereth from death, Prov. 10.2. God ſometimes giveth wealth to the wicked, as men put money into an earthen bottle: which that they may get out again, they break the bottle in pieces.

Shall leave them in the midſt of his dayes] Either they ſhall leave him, or he them, to his unmedicinable grief and heart-break. A poor fool, God will be ſure to make of him. He that truſteth in his riches (as every Mammoniſt doth) ſhall fall, Prov. 11.28. for although he bleſſe himſelf (as well underlaid; and what ſhould ayle ſuch an one? ſaith the world) yet the Lord abhorreth him, Pſal. 10.3. ſo that he many times cometh in the midſt of his daies to an untimely end, as did Judas, Ahab, Achan, Balaam, Ananias and Sapphira, &c. And thus many a rich wretch ſpinneth a fair thred to ſtrangle himſelf, both temporally and eternally: he by his covetouſneſs not onely killeth others, Prov. 1.19. but himſelf too.