George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 49:7
Testify. I will require thee to speak the truth, and attest the world, Psalm lxxx. 9. (Calmet)
Testify. I will require thee to speak the truth, and attest the world, Psalm lxxx. 9. (Calmet)
Verse Psalms 49:7. _NONE_ OF THEM _CAN BY ANY MEANS REDEEM HIS BROTHER_] Wealth cannot save from death; brother, however rich, cannot save his brother; nor will God accept _riches_ as a ransom for th...
NONE OF THEM CAN BID ANY MEANS REDEEM HIS BROTHER - None of those who are rich. This verse might be literally rendered, “a brother cannot by redeeming redeem; a man cannot give to God his own ransom.”...
Psalms 49 Retrospects and Meditations _ 1. Hear this, all ye peoples! (Psalms 49:1)_ 2. His message of retrospect and encouragement (Psalms 49:5) If such is the outcome and the goal of the purpose...
XLIX. THE IMMORTALITY OF THE RIGHTEOUS. The poet takes a popular proverb for his theme. This proverb recurs as a refrain in Psalms 49:12 and Psalms 49:20, and it probably stood originally after Psalms...
NONE. no man. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14. BY ANY MEANS REDEEM. Hebrew Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6). "redeeming will redeem". REDEEM. deliver by power. Hebrew. _padah._ See notes on Exodus 6:6 w...
The limits to the power and the possession of wealth....
The first answer to the question, -Wherefore should I fear"? These men make a god of their wealth. They trust in it and glory in it, as the godly man trusts in Jehovah and glories in Him (Psalms 32:10...
THEY THAT TRUST IN THEIR WEALTH, &C.— Some translate it, _Confident men boast themselves in their wealth, and in the multitude of their riches:_ Psalms 49:7. _One cannot by any means redeem the other,...
PSALMS 49 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Death and Redemption: Oppressed Saints Comforted and Oppressors Rebuked. ANALYSIS Startta I, Psalms 49:1-6, An Introduction, consisting of the Proem and the Problem. Sta...
_NONE OF THEM CAN BY ANY MEANS REDEEM HIS BROTHER, NOR GIVE TO GOD A RANSOM FOR HIM:_ -The godly has no cause for overwhelming fear because of the power of the ungodly; nor has the ungodly reason to b...
There is little to fix the date of this Ps. The writer moralises, in the fashion of the book of Proverbs, on the vanity of wealth and honour apart from understanding. The rich man cannot deliver his f...
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
NONE OF THEM CAN. — Brother is here used in the wide sense of Leviticus 19:17; Genesis 13:11 (where rendered “the one”). The sense is the same whether we make it nominative or accusative. Death is the...
_[Psalms 49:8]_ אָ֗ח לֹא ־פָדֹ֣ה יִפְדֶּ֣ה אִ֑ישׁ...
Psalms 49:1 THIS psalm touches the high-water mark of Old Testament faith in a future life; and in that respect, as well as in its application of that faith to alleviate the mystery of present inequal...
THE FOLLY OF TRUSTING IN RICHES Psalms 49:1 Here is a proclamation worthy of the hearing of all the world. The psalmist is listening to voices unheard by ordinary ears. Be sure to listen to God's voi...
This is the song of a principle, and the psalmist commences by calling peoples of all castes and classes to give attention. It denies the power of material wealth, and a5rms that of uprightness. There...
These words are very plain, and speak a truth which every day's experience in the world proves. Every rich man that dies manifests a new testimony, that death is not to be bribed. Neither can one rich...
Psalms 49 is a moral conclusion for all, founded on these judgments of God. Wealth, elevation, all that is exalted in man, is nothing. Man expects to endure, gives his own name to his lands, blesses h...
NONE [OF THEM] CAN BY ANY MEANS REDEEM HIS BROTHER,.... That is, "with their substance", or "riches", as the Targum and Jarchi supply. Some, according to the order of the words in the original, render...
None [of them] can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: Ver. 7. _None of them can by any means redeem his brother_] And therefore all money that hath been given for mass...
_They_, &c. The psalmist, having said that good men had no sufficient cause of fear on account of what they might suffer from ungodly men, now proceeds to show that the ungodly had no reason to be sec...
none of them, the subject being generalized to include all men, CAN BY ANY MEANS REDEEM HIS BROTHER, deliver him from the fate which will strike him on account of his sins, NOR GIVE TO GOD A RANSOM FO...
OF THE VANITY OF EARTHLY GOODS. To the chief musician, for use in liturgical worship, a psalm for the sons of Korah, a hymn of instruction and consolation written by a member of the family of Korah,...
6-14 Here is a description of the spirit and way of worldly people. A man may have wealth, and may have his heart enlarged in love, thankfulness, and obedience, and may do good with it. Therefore it...
REDEEM, to wit, from death, as appears from PSALMS 49:9,10 &c.; neither from the first death, nor from the second, which he points at PSALMS 49:14,19. HIS BROTHER; whom he would do his utmost to prese...
Psalms 49:7 can H376 means H6299 (H8800) redeem H6299 (H8799) brother H251 give H5414 (H8799) God...
THE HELPLESSNESS OF THE RICH IN THE FACE OF DEATH (PSALMS 49:6). He now points out that the rich are helpless in the face of death. None can redeem his brother, because the price of such redemption is...
REDEEM (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 59:20). _ (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 14:30). _...
Psalms 49:7 These words ought to teach us: (1) that we cannot save other people, however much we may wish to do so, and (2) that other people cannot save us, no matter how great a desire they may feel...
The chief musician here bids us not to fear the ungodly. However high they may be placed, they are but dying men, and when they die their hope shall perish with them. He gives a very graphic descripti...
CONTENTS: The despicable character of those who trust in their wealth. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: There is no security in the possession and enjoyment of wealth, for money cannot buy the...
Psalms 49:1. _Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world._ The psalmist opens his song as a philosopher and a prophet, giving equal instruction to all mankind. Psalms 49:3. _M...
_Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: both low and high, rich and poor, together._ THE INEQUALITIES OF SOCIETY Impressive and instructive that scene in the wood of Sen...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 49:1. This is a wisdom psalm. In particular, it addresses the confusion that the faithful often feel when they encounter trouble even while unfaithful people seem to get alo...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 49:5 After presenting the puzzle (vv. Psalms 49:5), the song reminds all its singers that every single person has the same end, death (vv....
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the Chief Musician, a psalm for the sons of Korah_.” See Introduction to Psalms 42. Both the author of the psalm, and the occasion on which it was composed, are unk...
EXPOSITION THIS is a didactic poem, and resembles in some respects Psalms 37:1, and Psalms 73:1. It deals with the same problem—the contrast between the lot of the righteous man, whom the wicked perse...
Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: Both low and high, rich and poor, together. My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understandin...
1 Peter 1:18; 1 Timothy 2:6; Matthew 16:26; Matthew 20:28...
Redeem — Neither from the first death, nor from the second. Brother — Whom he would do his utmost to preserve....