Psalms 49:9
I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
In Context
8I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.
10For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.
Cross References
Proverbs 10:2Treasures of impiety will profit nothing. Truly, justice shall liberate from death.
Ecclesiastes 8:8It is not in the power of a man to prohibit the spirit, nor does he have authority over the day of death, nor is he permitted to rest when war breaks out, and neither will impiety save the impious.
Luke 16:22Then it happened that the beggar died, and he was carried by the Angels into the bosom of Abraham. Now the wealthy man also died, and he was entombed in Hell.
Acts 2:27For you will not abandon my soul to Hell, nor will you allow your Holy One to see corruption.
Acts 13:33has been fulfilled by God for our children by raising up Jesus, just as it has been written in the second Psalm also: ‘You are my Son. This day I have begotten you.’
Matthew Henry on Psalms 49:7-15
The Vanity of Worldly Riches; The End of the Wicked. 6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; 7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: 8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:) 9 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption. 10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. 11 Their inward thought is, that… Read the whole commentary →