Psalms 49:11
They imagine that their houses will endure for ever, And their dwelling-places from generation to generation: Men celebrate their names on the earth.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
12Yet man, who is in honor, abideth not; He is like the beasts that perish.
Cross References
Psalms 10:6He saith in his heart, “I shall never fall; I shall never be in adversity.”
Psalms 64:6They meditate crimes: “We have finished,” say they, “our plans!” The heart and bosom of every one of them are deep.
Ecclesiastes 2:21For there is a man whose labor has been with wisdom and knowledge and skill; yet to a man who hath not labored for it must he leave it as his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Luke 11:39But the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inside is full of rapacity and wickedness.
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 →