Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 49:6
They that trust in their wealth, as a means of insuring them lasting happiness, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches, altogether vainglorious in their entire behavior,
They that trust in their wealth, as a means of insuring them lasting happiness, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches, altogether vainglorious in their entire behavior,
THEY THAT TRUST IN THEIR WEALTH - The first reason why there was no cause of alarm is drawn Psalms 49:6 from the “powerlessness” of wealth, as illustrated by the fact that it can do nothing to save li...
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...
TRUST. Hebrew. _batah._ See App-69....
The limits to the power and the possession of wealth....
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...
_THEY THAT TRUST IN THEIR WEALTH, AND BOAST THEMSELVES IN THE MULTITUDE OF THEIR RICHES;_ They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches. This sentence is not...
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...
THEY THAT — _i.e.,_ the rogues implied in the last verse....
_[Psalms 49:7]_ הַ בֹּטְחִ֥ים עַל ־חֵילָ֑ם וּ...
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...
They that trust in their (c) wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; (c) To trust in riches is madness, seeing they can neither restore life, nor prolong it....
_Heavens. Apostles, (St. Jerome) or angels. (Chaldean) (St. Athanasius) --- God is judge. His sentence must therefore be just, (Menochius) and we ought to tremble, 1 Corinthians iv. 4. (Haydock)_...
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...
6._They trust in their wealth. _We are now furnished with the reason why the suffering children of God should dismiss their apprehensions, and keep themselves from despondency, even when reduced to ex...
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...
THEY THAT TRUST IN THEIR WEALTH,.... In their outward force, power, and strength; their horses, chariots, and armies; see Psalms 33:16; or in their worldly goods and substance; which seems to be the...
They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; Ver. 6. _They that trust in their wealth_] Which was never yet true to those that trusted in it; and yet it is...
_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...
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...
As that which can and will secure them from God's judgments, and from the calamities of human life. The psalmist having said that he and other good men had no sufficient cause of fear from their prese...
Psalms 49:6 trust H982 (H8802) wealth H2428 boast H1984 (H8691) multitude H7230 riches H6239 trust -...
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...
TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
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 6:17; Esther 5:11; Ezekiel 28:4; Ezekiel 28:5; Hosea 12:8;...
Trust — As that which will secure them from calamities. Having said that good men had no cause of fear, from their present sufferings from ungodly men, now he proceeds to shew, that the ungodly had no...