The psalmist here highlights a truth that many people refuse to acknowledge. IT will not matter what honor or riches you have here that you rely upon, one day you will die and it will be of no lasting value. The man who puts his trust in wealth or the economy, or the government will perish along with the wealth, economy, and the government. SO he is calling for the believer not to worry about the fact that the wicked man "appears" to be prospering. His prosperity will follow him to the grave and it will be no more. But the man who trusts in God will have his honor with him in the presence of God.


Psalm 49:12-20
12 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

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.

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 not, is like the beasts that perish.