Psalms 49:1
PEOPLE] RV 'peoples,' explained by INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD. 4. Parable.. dark saying] We might render, 'proverb.. riddle': see Psalms 78:2; Proverbs 1:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
PEOPLE] RV 'peoples,' explained by INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD. 4. Parable.. dark saying] We might render, 'proverb.. riddle': see Psalms 78:2; Proverbs 1:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 friends or himself from death, and his prosperity need cause no dismay to those who are less fortunat... [ Continue Reading ]
_When_ THE INIQUITY OF MY HEELS, etc.] RV 'When iniquity at my heels,' etc. RM gives a still better sense, connecting Proverbs 1:5, 'When the iniquity of them that would supplant me compasseth me about, even of them that trust,'etPsalm 7. See Exodus 21:30 (RV). REDEEM.. RANSOM] Life that is forfeit... [ Continue Reading ]
This v. is a parenthesis, interrupting the connexion between Psalms 49:7; Psalms 49:9, _Is_ PRECIOUS, AND IT CEASETH] RV 'is costly, and must be let alone.'... [ Continue Reading ]
LEAVE THEIR WEALTH TO OTHERS] losing it for themselves.... [ Continue Reading ]
LXX and other versions imply a slight change of reading which gives a better sense: 'Graves are their houses for ever, the dwelling-places for all generations of those who called their lands after their own name.'... [ Continue Reading ]
_Being_ IN HONOUR ABIDETH NOT] RV 'abideth not in honour.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THEIR POSTERITY] RV 'after them men.' APPROVE, etc.] persist in the same foolish view of life.... [ Continue Reading ]
LIKE SHEEP, etc.] RV 'They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd'—a grim and forcible figure. IN THE MORNING] when God's day of reckoning dawns. SHALL CONSUME, etc.] RV 'shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for it.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GRAVE] RV 'Sheol.' The hope expressed is not necessarily that of a definite resurrection after death, but may be that of deliverance from the premature ending of life in this world. But the words he shall receive me show that what the Psalmist values most is life with God as opposed to life with... [ Continue Reading ]
BLESSED HIS SOUL] congratulated himself on his wealth: cp. Luke 12:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY SHALL NEVER SEE LIGHT] shall abide for ever in the darkness of Sheol.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND UNDERSTANDETH NOT] Those who perish like the beasts are not the rich as such, but the rich who do not know God.... [ Continue Reading ]