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20. ἄφρων. Literally, ‘Senseless!’ 1Co 15:36. Comp. Luk 11:40. The nom. is used for the voc., comp. Luk 8:54.
ταύτῃ τῇ νυκτί. Compare the death of Nabal, 1Sa 25:36.
τὴν ψυχήν σου ἀπαιτοῦσιν ἀπὸ σοῦ. ‘They demand thy soul of thee.’ Who are ‘they’? Some say God (Job 27:8), or His death-angels (Job 33:22), or robbers whom they suppose to attack the rich man on the night that his wealth has flowed in. There is however no definite pronoun, the phrase is impersonal, as often in Hebrew. It is the same “categoric plural” as in Luk 12:11 and Luk 16:9, Luk 23:31.
ἃ δὲ ἡτοίμασας, τίνι ἔσται; ‘But the things which thou preparedst, for whom shall they be?’ “He heapeth up riches and knoweth not who shall gather them,” Psa 39:6; Psa 49:16-17; comp. Psa 52:7 and Jam 4:13-15. St James seems to have been deeply impressed with this teaching.