This shows what vexation it is to a worldly man at death, that he must leave his riches behind but though the wealth will not follow to another world, guilt will, and everlasting torment. He that gets riches, and not by right, though he may make them his hope, never shall have joy of them. Men may be imposed upon, but God cannot be deceived. Yet whatever wickedness there is in the heart, God sees it. But much in our own hearts and in the hearts of others, will remain unknown. He that believes God's testimony in this matter, and learns to watch his own heart, will find this is a correct, though a sad picture, and learns many lessons to direct his conduct. Who can understand his errors? Much less can we know the hearts of others, or depend upon them. We cannot know our own hearts, nor what they will do in an hour of temptation. The case is bad indeed, if the conscience, which should set right the errors of other faculties, is a leader in the delusion. Herein the heart is desperately wicked it is deadly, it is desperate. It calls evil good, and good evil and cries peace to those to whom it does not belong. The heart, the conscience of man, in his corrupt and fallen state, is deceitful above all things. They shall not cease from yielding fruit in holiness and good works. Those who make God their Hope, have enough in him to make up the want of all creature-comforts. They shall be fixed in peace and satisfaction of mind they shall not be anxious in a year of drought. Those who make God their Hope, shall flourish like a tree always green, whose leaf does not wither.
Those who trust to their own righteousness and strength, and think they can do without Christ, make flesh their arm, and their souls cannot prosper in graces or comforts. Verses 5-11 He who puts confidence in man, shall be like the heath in a desert, a naked tree, a sorry shrub, the product of barren ground, useless and worthless. What need we have to humble ourselves before God, who are so vile in his sight! How should we depend on his mercy and grace, begging of God to search and prove us not to suffer us to be deceived by our own hearts, but to create in us a clean and holy nature by his Spirit! That which is graven in the heart will become plain in the life men's actions show the desires and purposes of their hearts. Verses 1-4 The sins which men commit make little impression on their minds, yet every sin is marked in the book of God they are all so graven upon the table of the heart, that they will all be remembered by the conscience.
(5-11) The malice of the prophet's enemies. (1-4) The happiness of the man that trusts in God the end of the opposite character. The fatal consequences of the idolatry of the Jews.
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