Ezekiel 28:4

With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

Ver. 4. With thy wisdom thou hast gotten thee riches.] Which yet is not every wise man's happiness. Aelian a observeth that the wisest and best of the Grecians were very poor, as Socrates, Aristides, Phocion, Ephialtes, Epaminondas, Pelopidas, Lamachus, and others. Fortuna fere favet fatuis: nescio quomodo, bonae mentis soror, est paupertas, saith he in Petronius. b Piety goeth oft yoked with poverty.

a Var. Hist., lib. ii.

b Eumolpus.