John Trapp on Proverbs 16:16

Verſ. 16. How much better is it to get wiſdome than gold] q. d. It is unſpeakably better to get grace than gold; for what is gold and ſilver, but the guts and garbage of the earth? and what ſerves it to, but the life that now is, the back and belly? and what is the happineſſe that a man hath in much ſtore of it,Pſal. 39. but skin-deep, or rather imaginary? Surely man walketh in a vain ſhew, in heaping up riches, &c. That I ſpeak not of the uncertainty of riches, their commonneſſe to the wicked alſo, the inſincerity of the comforts they yeeld, and their utter inſufficiency to fill the infinite heart of man. Non enim plus ſatiatur cor auro quàm corpus aurâ. The contrary of all which is true of heavenly wiſdome. How much better is it therefore, &c?