FALSE Abideth Appetite Arrogant Assemble Assembleth Betrays Can't Captive Collecteth Collects Cruel Curse Dealer Death Desire Desires Doesn't Enlarged Enlarges Enlargeth Full Furthermore Gather Gathereth Gathers Getting Grave Greed Greedy Haughty Heapeth Heaps Hell Home Itself Keepeth Makes Moreover Nations Nether-world Peoples Pride Proud Rest Satisfied Sheol Soul Stay Takes Transgresseth Treacherous Underworld Wide Wine Yea Yes
2:5 Yea also, because {e} he transgresseth by wine, [he is] a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and [is] as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth to him all nations, and heapeth to him all people:
(e) He compares the proud and covetous man to a drunkard that is without reason and sense, whom God will punish and make a laughing stock to all the world: and this he speaks for the comfort of the godly, and against the Chaldeans.
2:5 He - The king of Babylon. Wine - Hereby Belshazzar, his city and kingdom of Babylon fell a prey to Darius and Cyrus. At home - Is ever abroad warring upon some or other. Unto him - To his kingdom. All nations - That are round about him.
2:5-14 The prophet reads the doom of all proud and oppressive powers that bear hard upon God's people. The lusts of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, are the entangling snares of men; and we find him that led Israel captive, himself led captive by each of these. No more of what we have is to be reckoned ours, than what we come honestly by. Riches are but clay, thick clay; what are gold and silver but white and yellow earth? Those who travel through thick clay, are hindered and dirtied in their journey; so are those who go through the world in the midst of abundance of wealth. And what fools are those that burden themselves with continual care about it; with a great deal of guilt in getting, saving, and spending it, and with a heavy account which they must give another day! They overload themselves with this thick clay, and so sink themselves down into destruction and perdition. See what will be the end hereof; what is gotten by violence from others, others shall take away by violence. Covetousness brings disquiet and uneasiness into a family; he that is greedy of gain troubles his own house; what is worse, it brings the curse of God upon all the affairs of it. There is a lawful gain, which, by the blessing of God, may be a comfort to a house; but what is got by fraud and injustice, will bring poverty and ruin upon a family. Yet that is not the worst; Thou hast sinned against thine own soul, hast endangered it. Those who wrong their neighbours, do much greater wrong to their own souls. If the sinner thinks he has managed his frauds and violence with art and contrivance, the riches and possessions he heaped together will witness against him. There are not greater drudges in the world than those who are slaves to mere wordly pursuits. And what comes of it? They find themselves disappointed of it, and disappointed in it; they will own it is worse than vanity, it is vexation of spirit. By staining and sinking earthly glory, God manifests and magnifies his own glory, and fills the earth with the knowledge of it, as plentifully as waters cover the sea, which are deep, and spread far and wide.
Abideth Dealer Death Desire Enlarges Enlargeth Furthermore Gathereth Gathers Haughty Heapeth Heaps Hell Home Keepeth Moreover Nations Nether-World Peoples Proud Satisfied Sheol Transgresseth Treacherous Wine
Abideth Dealer Death Desire Enlarges Enlargeth Furthermore Gathereth Gathers Haughty Heapeth Heaps Hell Home Keepeth Moreover Nations Nether-World Peoples Proud Satisfied Sheol Transgresseth Treacherous Wine
