John Trapp on Proverbs 22:4

Verſ. 4. By humility and the fear of the Lord] Heb. The heel of humility, &c. The humble heart that lyes low, and hearkens what God the Lord will ſay unto it, that follows him trembling, as the people followed Saul, 1 Sam. 13.7. ſhall have hard at the heels of it riches, a ſufficiency, if not a ſuperfluity, and honour, which is to bee choſen before riches v. 1. (See the Note there) and life above the danger of thoſe thorns and ſnares mentioned in the next verſe; not life preſent onely, but length of dayes for ever and ever. Pſal. 21.4. O the [non-Latin text not transcribed], the heaped up happineſs of a man that humbles and trembles before the Lord! Hee that doth the former, cannot but do the latter; Hence that cloſe connexion of theſe two graces in this Text, By humility the fear of the Lord ſo the original runs without the grammatical copulative And, to ſhew, that they go alwayes together, yea, the one is as it were predicated of the other; neither want they their reward. Riches, honour, life; What things bee theſe? Who would not turn ſpiritual purchaſer?