Compare Proverbs 11:24. There is a seeming wealth behind which there lies a deep spiritual poverty and wretchedness. There is a poverty which makes…

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing.—Compare to Luke 12:21, and the advice given in Revelation 3:17.

There is that maketh himself rich, yet [has] nothing
Some persons make a great show of riches, and would be thought t…

Some who are truly poor trade and spend as if they were rich; this is sin, it will be their shame, and it will end accordingly. Some who are truly …