Hawker's Poor man's commentary
Psalms 49:10-14
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!
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!
Verse Psalms 49:10. _FOR HE SEETH_ THAT _WISE MEN DIE_] Though they may be rich, and their wisdom teach them the best method of managing their riches so as to derive all the good from them they can p...
FOR HE SEETH THAT WISE MEN DIE - He must see this; he does see it. He perceives that no one can be saved from death. It comes on all alike - the wise and the unwise. Nothing saves from it. The allusio...
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...
HE SEETH. it must be seen. AND LEAVE. They leave. _Homonym: 'azab._ See note on Exodus 23:5. or, fortify, or strengthen by increasing or laying them up....
The limits to the power and the possession of wealth....
_For he seeth_that _wise_men _die_ Experience shews the rich man that all alike come to the grave. Even wisdom cannot deliver its possessor. This rendering is on the whole preferable to that of R.V. m...
FOR HE SEETH THAT WISE MEN DIE— _For he seeth the wise die; as well as the fool and stupid, they perish,_ &c. As much as to say, "If riches could save at all from death, they would do it when in the h...
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...
_FOR HE SEETH THAT WISE MEN DIE, LIKEWISE THE FOOL AND THE BRUTISH PERSON PERISH, AND LEAVE THEIR WEALTH TO OTHERS._ -The universality of death might show the ungodly rich man that God may call him a...
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...
LEAVE THEIR WEALTH TO OTHERS] losing it for themselves....
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...
FOR HE SEETH. — The clauses are wrongly divided in the Authorised Version. Translate — “On the contrary he must see it (the grave), Wise men must die ... Likewise the fool and the stupid must perish...
_[Psalms 49:11]_ כִּ֤י יִרְאֶ֨ה ׀ חֲכָ֘מִ֤ים יָמ֗וּתוּ יַ֤חַד...
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...
For he seeth [that] wise men (f) die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to (g) others. (f) In that that death makes no difference between the persons. (g) That...
_Oxen. St. Jerome and Protestants, "the cattle upon a thousand hills." But our version is very good, and adopted by the Syriac, Ferrand, &c. (Calmet) --- Aleph means an ox as well as a thousand; and i...
10_For he shall see that wise men die. _I consider the ninth and tenth verses to be connected, and that it is the intention of the Psalmist to censure the folly of those who dream of spending an etern...
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...
FOR HE SEETH [THAT] WISE MEN DIE,.... This is a reason convincing the rich man, that with all his riches he cannot redeem his brother from death; since he must see, by daily and constant experience, t...
For he seeth [that] wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. Ver. 10. _For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool_] This to be a truth,...
_For he seeth_ Every man sees and knows it; it is visible and evident, both from reason and from universal experience; _wise men die,_ &c. All men die, the wise and good, as well as the foolish and wi...
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,...
For he, every person in the world, including him whom men try to redeem by their own works, as in the supererogatory nonsense of the papists, SEETH THAT WISE MEN DIE, the so-called solid citizens of t...
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...
HE SEETH; an impersonal expression. Every man sees and knows it; it is visible and evident, both from reason and from universal experience, that all men die, without any difference between wise and fo...
Psalms 49:10 sees H7200 (H8799) men H2450 die H4191 (H8799) Likewise H3162 fool H3684 person H1198 perish...
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...
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 Timothy 6:6; Ecclesiastes 2:16; Ecclesiastes 2:18; Ecclesiastes 2:19;...
He seeth — Every man sees that all men die, the wise and the foolish; the evil and the good. To others — He saith not to sons or kindred; but to others, because he is wholly uncertain to whom he shall...