The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
Ver. 7. The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich.] De pauperat et ditat: It is he that stoppeth that hole in the bottom of the bag, those secret drains and issues of expense, at which other men's estates run out. Hag 1:6
He bringeth low, and lifteth up.] Job, for instance; and our Henry VI, in whom it appeared that mortality was but the stage of mutability; for today he was a most potent monarch, tomorrow not the master of a mole hill. How suddenly was Joseph advanced, and David, and Daniel, and Mordecai, and Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, &c.