But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. /*Selah*/.God — Tho' no man can find out a ransom to redeem himself, yet God can and will redeem me.The grave — The grave shall not have power to retain me, but shall be forced to give me up into my father's hands.Receive — Into heaven. read more
Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;Afraid — Discouraged. read more
Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.Blessed — He applauded himself as an happy man.Men — And as he flatters himself, so parasites flatter him for their own advantage.When — When thou dost indulge thyself, and advance thy worldly interest. read more
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.He — Now he returns to the third person: such changes are frequent in this book.Go — To the grave and hell, where he shall meet with his wicked parents, who by their counsel and example, led him into his evil courses.See — Neither the light of this life, to which they shall never return: nor of the next life, to which they shall never be admitted. read more
Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.Understandeth not — Hath not true wisdom.The beasts — Though he hath the outward shape of a man, yet in truth he is a beast, a stupid, and unreasonable creature. read more
12. Notwithstanding their impotence to avert, and the futility of their schemes to disguise, the utter desolations of death, they are not won to wisdom. Abideth not In Psalms 49:20 it reads, “understandeth not,” and which the Septuagint, followed by the Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic, reads in this place, in order to make the two refrains correspond, but without authority, for variations in refrains are quite common. Like the beasts All their attempts to perpetuate their name, and thus... read more
13. Learning no higher wisdom by observation, their posterity eulogize the example of their fathers and perpetuate their folly. read more
14. Like sheep The imagery is startling. Death is personified as a shepherd, to whom these sensuous worldlings are committed. He leads or drives them into sheol, the region of the dead. Laid in the grave Placed, or appointed there. Death shall feed on them “On” is not in the original. The idea is rather, “death shall feed them,” that is, as a shepherd does his sheep. So also the Septuagint, ποιμανει αυτους , feed them. The feeding also implies tending, governing. They are... read more
15. But God will redeem my soul Surely “God will redeem” me. The particle is one of asseveration springing from undoubting faith. The word “redeem” supposes him to be first under the power of death. Faith in the resurrection of the body here discovers itself. The author not only speaks in his own person, but for all of his class. It was the common faith. From the power of the grave Literally, From the hand of sheol. This does not teach that the righteous will not die, which would... read more
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 49:14
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.Sheep — Which for a season are in sweet pastures, but at the owner's pleasure are led away to the slaughter.Death — The first death shall consume their bodies, and the second death shall devour their souls.The upright — Good men whom they abused at their pleasure.Morning — In the day of the general... read more