John Trapp on Proverbs 11:4

Verſ. 4. Riches profit not in the day of wrath] Neither their ſilver, nor their gold ſhall bee able to deliver them in the day of the Lords wrath, Zeph. 1.18. Iſa. 13.7. Yea, they carried away the richer Jews, when the poorer ſort were left to till the land, 2 King. 24. The great Caliph of Babylon (whom all the Mahometan Princes honoured above all others, as the true ſucceſſour of Mahomet, and the grand Oracle of their Law) being taken together with his City by the great Cham of Tartary, was by him ſet in the midſt of his infinite Treaſure, and willed to feed thereon, and make no ſpare; In which order the covetous wretch kept for certain dayes,Turk. hiſt. fol. 113. miſerably dyed for hunger, in the midſt of thoſe things, whereof hee thought hee ſhould never have enough. Wherefore ſhould I dye being ſo rich? ſaid that wretched Cardinal Henry Beauford Biſhop of Wincheſter in Henry the ſixths time. Fic, quoth hee, will not death bee hired?Act. & Mon. fol. 925. will mony do nothing? His riches could not reprieve him.

But righteouſneſs delivereth from death] See the Note on Chap. 10.2.