Proverbs 27:24 (BSB)

for riches are not forever, nor does a crown endure to every generation.

From Proverbs 27. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 27:24

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 27:23-27: Here is, I. A command given us to be diligent in our callings. It is directed to husbandmen and shepherds, and those that deal in cattle, but it is to be extended to all other lawful callings; whatever our business is, within doors or without, we must apply our minds to it. This command intimates, 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 27:24: The lambs are for thy clothing,.... This is another argument, exciting to diligence in the pastoral calling, taken from the profit arising from it: the wool of the lambs, or rather "sheep", as many versions render it; of it cloth is made, and of that garments to be worn, to keep decent, warm, and comfortable; see Job 31:20; and the goats are the price of...
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 27:23-27: Pro 27:23-27 An exhortation to rural industry, and particularly to the careful tending of cattle for breeding, forms the conclusion of the foregoing series of proverbs, in which we cannot always discern an intentional grouping. It is one of the Mashal-odes spoken of vol. i. p. 12. It consists of 11 = 4 + 7 lines.