How much better [is it] to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
Ver. 16. How much better is it to get wisdom than gold,] q.d., It is unspeakably better to get grace than gold; for what is gold and silver but the guts and garbage of the earth? and what serves it to but the life that now is, the back and belly? and what is the happiness that a man hath in much store of it but skin deep, or rather imaginary? "Surely man walketh in a vain show, in heaping up riches." Psa 39:6 That I speak not of the uncertainty of riches, their commonness to the wicked also, the insincerity of the comforts they yield, and their utter insufficiency to fill the infinite heart of man. Non enim plus satiatur cor auro quam corpus aura. The contrary of all which is true of heavenly wisdom. "How much better is it, therefore, to get wisdom than gold."