Psalms 49:13
Such is the way which is their confidence! And they who come after them approve their maxims. [[Pause.]]
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
In Context
12Yet man, who is in honor, abideth not; He is like the beasts that perish.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 3:19For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts: one lot befalleth both. As the one dieth, so dieth the other. Yea, there is one spirit in them, and a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast; for all is vanity.
Luke 11:47Woe to you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Luke 16:27Then he said, I pray thee then, father, to send him to my father's house;
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 →