Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 49:13
This their way [is] their folly: yet their posterity (i) approve their sayings. Selah.
(i) They speak and do the same thing that their fathers did.
This their way [is] their folly: yet their posterity (i) approve their sayings. Selah.
(i) They speak and do the same thing that their fathers did.
Verse Psalms 49:13. _THEIR POSTERITY APPROVE THEIR SAYINGS._] Go the same way; adopt their maxims....
THIS THEIR WAY IS THEIR FOLLY - This might be rendered, “This is their way or course of life. It is their folly;” or, such is their folly. On the word “way,” see the notes at Psalms 1:6. The idea is,...
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...
SELAH. Connecting the _fact_ of Psalms 49:14 with their _thought_ of verses: Psalms 49:11; Psalms 49:12, and explaining the _folly_ of...
A difficult verse. The best rendering appears to be: This is the way of them that are self-confident, And of their followers who [lit. _those who after them_ approve their sayings. The verse sums u...
The fate of the godless rich man is further described, and contrasted with the Psalmist's confidence....
DISCOURSE: 582 THE FOLLY OF WORLDLY MEN Psalms 49:13._ This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings._ IT is generally supposed that wisdom pertains chiefly, if not exclusi...
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...
_THIS THEIR WAY IS THEIR FOLLY: YET THEIR POSTERITY APPROVE THEIR SAYINGS. SELAH._ This their way (is) their folly - "their way," whereby they virtually think themselves immortal, and therefore desir...
49:13 folly, (h-6) Or 'confidence.'...
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...
THEIR POSTERITY] RV 'after them men.' APPROVE, etc.] persist in the same foolish view of life....
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...
THIS THEIR WAY — _i.e._, the folly mentioned in the (amended) preceding verse, and described in Psalms 49:11. IS THEIR FOLLY — _i.e._, is a way of folly....
_[Psalms 49:14]_ זֶ֣ה דַ֭רְכָּם כֵּ֣סֶל לָ֑מֹו וְ...
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...
_Goats? Can any of you be so stupid? (Menochius) --- Some of the pagans believed, that their idols delighted in the smell of victims. (Haydock)_...
This is a sad, but too true picture of unawakened, careless Christless sinners. How poor, and even like senseless animals for slaughter, is their life. How fearful their end!...
13_This their way is foolishness _As this verse has been variously rendered, I shall briefly, before giving my own sense of it, state the views which have been taken by others. As the Hebrew word כסל...
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...
THIS THEIR WAY [IS] THEIR FOLLY,.... This their last end becoming like the beasts that perish, which is the issue and event of all their confidence, ambition, and honour, shows the folly of their live...
This their way [is] their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah. Ver. 13. _This their way is their folly_] This their fond conceit of an immortality is an egregious folly, fully con...
_Nevertheless_ Notwithstanding all these fine fancies; _man being in honour_ Living in all the splendour and glory above mentioned; _abideth not_ Hebrew, בל ילין, _bal jalin, shall not lodge for a nig...
This their way is their folly, it is the way all men fare who have such foolish confidence in themselves and in their riches; YET THEIR POSTERITY APPROVE THEIR SAYINGS, the same thing happens to those...
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,...
APPROVE THEIR SAYINGS: _ Heb._ delight in their mouth...
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...
THIS THEIR WAY, i.e. their counsel and contrivance to immortalize themselves. IS THEIR FOLLY; though to themselves and some otters it seem to be wisdom, yet in truth it is apparent folly and madness....
Psalms 49:13 way H1870 foolish H3689 posterity H310 approve H7521 (H8799) sayings H6310 Selah H5542 folly -...
MAN'S VAIN ATTEMPT TO PERPETUATE HIMSELF WILL BE IN VAIN WHATEVER HE DOES (PSALMS 49:11). Men do in their own ineffective way seek to perpetuate themselves. They think that they will live for ever in...
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...
_This their way is their folly._ THE FOLLY OF SIN There can be no greater evidence of the degeneracy of mankind than their fond pursuits after the things which are light and momentary, and their wil...
_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 49:13 God treats these two groups differently when they die. The unfaithful are LIKE SHEEP... APPOINTED FOR SHEOL, while GOD WILL RANSOM the faithful person’s soul fro
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 Corinthians 3:19; Jeremiah 44:17; Luke 11:47; Luke 11:48; Luke 12:
Way — Their contrivance to immortalize themselves....