Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Thou fool - If there is any supreme folly, it is this. As though riches could prolong life, or avert for a moment the approach of pain and death.
This night ... - What an awful sentence to a man who, as he thought, had got just ready to live and enjoy himself! In a single moment all his hopes were blasted, and his soul summoned to the bar of his long-forgotten God. So, many are surprised as suddenly and as unprepared. They are snatched from their pleasures, and hurried to a world where there is no pleasure, and where all their wealth cannot purchase one moment' s ease from the gnawings of the worm that never dies.
Shall be required of thee - Thou shalt be required to die, to go to God, and to give up your account.
Then whose ... - Whose they may be is of little consequence to the man that lost his soul to gain them; but they are often left to heirs that dissipate them much sooner than the father procured them, and thus they secure "their" ruin as well as his own. See Psalms 39:6; Ecclesiastes 2:18-19.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Exodus 20:1-17
Psalms 39:6
Psalms 49:12
Psalms 146:4
Ecclesiastes 2:1
Nahum 3:15
Zephaniah 1:13
1 Thessalonians 5:23
1 Timothy 6:17
James 5:5
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