And [when] thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
Ver. 13. When thy silver and thy gold.] Which what is it else but white and red mould, the guts and garbage of the earth? Wonder it is surely, that treading upon it we should so much esteem it. Well, if silver and gold be our happiness, then it is in the earth, and so, which is strange, nearer hell, which the Scripture placeth in the deep, than heaven, which all know to be aloft; and so nearer the devil than God.