Proverbs 11:28 (BSB)

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like foliage.

From Proverbs 11. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 11:28

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 11:28: Observe, 1. Our riches will fail us when we are in the greatest need: He that trusts in them, as if they would secure him the favour of God and be his protection and portion, shall fall, as a man who lays his weight on a broken reed, which will not only disappoint him, but run into his hand and pierce him. 2.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 11:28: He that trusteth in his riches shall fall,.... As leaves in autumn, which are withered and dry. To trust in riches is to trust in uncertain things; things not to be depended on, being here today and gone tomorrow; it is like leaning upon a broken staff, which giving way, the person falls: and so the fall of Babylon will be, while she is trusting...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 11:28: (Compare Pro 10:15; Psa 49:6; Ti1 6:17). righteous . . . branch-- (Psa 1:3; Jer 17:8).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 11:28: Pro 11:28 28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall, And the righteous shall flourish like the green leaf. יפּול (plene after the Masora) as well as the figure וכעלה (cf. for the punctuation וכעשׁן, Pro 10:26) are singular, but are understood if one observes that in 28a a withered tree, and in 28b a tree with leaves ever green, hovers before the imagination of the poet (cf.