Psalms 49:17
What meaning of the psalms 49:17 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 49:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him."
What does Psalms 49:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him."
FOR WHEN HE DIETH - He must die. His wealth cannot save him from the grave. It is always to be “assumed” of rich people, as of all other men, that they “will” have to die. The point is not one which i...
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...
CARRY... AWAY. See note on "receive", Psalms 49:15....
The rich man cannot carry his wealth with him when he dies. The thought already expressed in Psalms 49:10 is resumed and further developed....
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. St...
_FOR WHEN HE DIETH HE SHALL CARRY NOTHING AWAY: HIS GLORY SHALL NOT DESCEND AFTER HIM._ For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away. Speedily coming, death shall put an end to all his present power...
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...
After expressing his own hopes of escaping from death, or being rescued from corruption, the psalmist recurs to the question of Psalms 49:5, and completes the answer to it. He need not fear, however p...
_[Psalms 49:18]_ כִּ֤י לֹ֣א בְ֭ מֹותֹו יִקַּ֣ח הַ כֹּ֑ל לֹא ־יֵרֵ֖ד אַחֲרָ֣יו כְּבֹודֹֽו׃...
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 vo...
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...
What a close is here made to the rich man's pomp! How terrible is death to all such characters! Wherein doth he differ from the brutes that perish? A mere animal life was all that belonged to both: an...
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 WHEN HE DIETH HE SHALL CARRY NOTHING AWAY,.... Such men, with all their riches and honour, must die; therefore why should men be afraid of them? or wherein are they to be accounted of, whose breat...
For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him. Ver. 17. _For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away_] Nothing but a shroud, as that great emperor caused to b...
_Be not thou afraid_ That is, discouraged or dejected; _when one is made rich_, &c. The prosperity of sinners is often matter of fear and grief to good men; partly because their prosperity enables the...
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,...
15-20 Believers should not fear death. The distinction of men's outward conditions, how great soever in life, makes none at death; but the difference of men's spiritual states, though in this life it...
For as he will shortly die, so all his wealth, and power, and glory will die with him, and thou wilt have no cause either to envy or fear him....
Psalms 49:17 dies H4194 away H3947 (H8799) glory H3519 descend H3381 (H8799) after H310 he shall - Job 1:21, Job 27:19; Ecclesiastes 5:15; Luke 12:20, Luke 16:24;...
THE UPRIGHT ARE NOT THEREFORE TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE WAY THAT THE RICH SEEM TO FLOURISH, FOR IN THE END THE RICH WHO DO NOT HAVE TRUE UNDERSTANDING WILL SIMPLY PERISH LIKE THE BEASTS (PSALMS 49:16)...
Psalms 49:17 Sadly as this announcement may present itself to us at the first, writing vanity on so many of the toils, and hopes, and accumulations of men, yet, looked at a little closer, it is not s...
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. _...
_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...
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 15:43; 1 Timothy 6:7; Ecclesiastes 5:15; Isaiah 10:3; Isaiah 5:14; Job 1:21; Job 27:19; Luke 12:20; Luke 16:24...