They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Ver. 19. They shall cast their silver in the streets.] As burdensome, and not beneficial to them a Thus Judas threw away his wages of wickedness; and many, on their deathbeds, detest their cursed hoards of ill gotten goods, saying unto them, as once Charles V did, Abite hinc, abite longe, - Away from me, away, away.
Their gold shall be removed.] Shall be for a dunghill, saith the Vulgate; it shall be esteemed, as it is, the guts and garbage of the earth.
Their silver and their gold.] See Pro 11:4 Zep 1:18 Ecclesiastes 5:8, See Trapp on " Pro 11:4 " See Trapp on " Zep 1:18 " See Trapp on " Ecc 5:8 "
They shall not satisfy b their souls.] Silver and gold are not eatable, as Midas found, and the great Caliph of Babylon, whom Haabon the great Khan of Tartary starved to death in the midst of his infinite treasures, which though they were in valour great, and with great care laid together, yet served they him not now to suffice nature best contented with a little. c
Because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.] Their wealth is the occasion of their wickedness, and they are much the worse men for their worldly substance. See Psalms 52:7, with the margin; Jer 5:27-28 Luke 16:9; Luke 16:13 .
a Ne sit ponderi quod prius fuit luxuriae. - Jerome.
b Plato in Cratylo scribit Tantalum dictum esse quas παλαντατον, i.e., infelicissimum
c Turkish History, 113.