John Trapp on Proverbs 18:11

Verſ. 11. The rich mans wealth is his ſtrong City] It is hard to have wealth, and not to truſt to it, Matth. 19.24. 1 Tim. 5.17. See the Notes there. But wealth was never true to thoſe that truſted it: there is an utter uncertainty, 1 Tim. 5.17. a non-entity, Prov. 23.5, 6. an impotency to help in the evil day, Zeph. 1.18. an impoſſibility to ſtretch to eternity, unleſs it bee to deſtroy the Owner for ever, Eccleſ. 5.13. James 5.1, 2, &c. A wicked man beaten out of earthly comforts, is as a naked man in a ſtorm, and an unarmed man in the field, or a ſhip toſſed in the Sea without an Anchor, which preſently daſheth upon rocks, or falleth upon quick-ſands. Totam igitur anchoram ſacram figamus in Deo, qui ſolus nec poteſt, nec vult fallere. Caſt wee Anchor therefore upon God, who neither can nor will fail us, ſaith a learned Interpreter.

And as an high wall in his own conceit] It is conceit onely that ſets a price upon theſe outward comforts, and bears men in hand, that thereby, as by an high wall, they ſhall not onely bee ſecured, but ſecreted in their lewdneſſe, from the eyes of God and men. [non-Latin text not transcribed], &c. Cedr. But what ſaid the Oracle to bloody Phocas? Though thou ſet up thy walls as high as Heaven, ſin lies at the foundation, and all will out, yea all bee overturned.