Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
So is he, etc.--Such is a picture of his folly here, and of its awful issue.
and is not rich toward God--lives to amass and enjoy riches which terminate on self, but as to the riches of God's favor, which is life (Psalms 30:5), of "precious" faith (2 Peter 1:1; James 2:5), of good works (1 Timothy 6:18), of wisdom which is better than rubies (Proverbs 8:11) --lives and dies a beggar!
this night, etc.--This sudden cutting short of his career is designed to express not only the folly of building securely upon the future, but of throwing one's whole soul into what may at any moment be gone. "Thy soul shall be required of thee" is put in opposition to his own treatment of it, "I will say to my soul, Soul," etc.
whose shall those things be, etc.--Compare Psalms 39:6, "He heapeth up riches and knoweth not who shall gather them."
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James 2:5
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