Psalms 49:17
Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
In Context
18If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.
Cross References
Job 1:21and he said, “Naked I departed from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Just as it pleased the Lord, so has it been done. Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
Psalms 17:14And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice: hail and coals of fire.
Isaiah 5:14For this reason, Hell has expanded its soul, and has opened its mouth without any limits. And their strong ones, and their people, and their exalted and glorious ones will descend into it.
Luke 12:20But God said to him: ‘Foolish one, this very night they require your soul of you. To whom, then, will those things belong, which you have prepared?’
1 Corinthians 15:43What is sown in dishonor shall rise to glory. What is sown in weakness shall rise to power.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 49:16-20
Privilege of the Godly. 15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah. 16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased; 17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him. 18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself. 19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light. 20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth… Read the whole commentary →