Psalms 49:19
Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
In Context
18If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.
20Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son.
Cross References
Genesis 15:15But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age.
Job 33:30so that he may revive their souls from corruption and enlighten them with the light of life.
Ecclesiastes 3:21Who knows if the spirit of the sons of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?
Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
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?’
Jude 1:13raging waves of the sea, foaming from their own confusion; wandering stars, for whom the whirlwind of darkness has been reserved forever!
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 →