Why should I fear in times of trouble, when the iniquity of those who cheat me surrounds me, those who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?

It is not merely from the intrinsic insufficiency of wealth, honors, or pleasures to confer true happiness that the Psalmist proves the misery of worldly men, but from their manifest and total incapacity of forming a correct judgment of such possessions. Happiness is connected with the state of mind of that man who enjoys it, and none would call those happy who are sunk in stupidity and security, and are destitute of [genuine] understanding. ( Calvin,Comm. Ps. 49:6 [2:2411)