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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish and leave their wealth to others. Whatever men may have gathered, the wisest cannot find an invention which will enable him to take his treasure with him. He must leave it behind. “Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Their inward thought [is, that] their houses [shall continue] for ever,.... This is the thought of their hearts, what they secretly imagine, and conclude within themselves; either that their families, which may be meant by their houses, see 2 Samuel 3:1; shall continue in succeeding ages, to the end of the world, to inherit their possessions, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names. Man is so fond of immortality that, while he foolishly rejects the reality of it he clings to the name of it; and he builds a house which he ties down by entail to his heirs, and his heirs’...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Nevertheless man [being] in honour abideth not,.... Or Adam: and some understand this of the first man Adam, who was created and crowned with glory and honour; but it did not abide with him, nor he in that: so some Jewish writers (y) interpret it. But whether the words will admit of this sense or not, the general view of the psalmist, which is to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: He passes away. His grace, his lordship, his reverence, must lie in the grave. How ridiculous grand titles seem when once it is said, “Earth to earth; dust to dust; ashes to ashes.” “Vain pomp and glory of the earth,” indeed we may say, in the presence of the shroud and the mattock, and the grave and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This their way [is] their folly,.... This their last end becoming like the beasts that perish, which is the issue and event of all their confidence, ambition, and honour, shows the folly of their lives and conduct: or this their course of life, in trusting to their riches; boasting of their wealth; pleasing themselves with the thoughts of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This their way is their folly: yet their prosperity approve their sayings. Selah. When men have lived only for this world, and die and pass away, without any future worth the having — without any hope of heaven — yet still they report it in the papers that he died “worth” — so much, as if it were wonderful to have so much to leave. And they speak...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Like sheep they are laid in the grave,.... They are not in life like sheep, harmless and innocent; nor reckoned as such for the slaughter, as the people of God are; unless it be that they are like them, brutish and stupid, thoughtless of death, and unconcerned about their estate after it; and so die and go into the grave, like natural brute...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; They lead a worldly life, and die a worldly death-quiet, contented with this world, — no thought of the world to come. Psa_49:14. Death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; That everlasting daybreak shall shed a light on many things; and then the master and the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah. What a happy confidence! Blessed are those who, by a living faith in a living God, know that their soul shall be received into its Maker’s hands. But woe unto those whose confidence lies in the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave,.... The psalmist expresses his faith, that though he should die, and for a while be under the power of the grave, yet he should be redeemed from it in the resurrection; which to the saints will be "the day of redemption", Ephesians 4:30; their bodies then will be redeemed from mortality,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Be not thou afraid when one is made rich,.... Who before was poor, or not so rich; but now become so, either by inheritance, or by his own diligence and industry, through the permission of Providence. This is to be understood, not of a good man, from whom oppression is not to be feared; but it may be hoped he will do good with his riches, by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased; For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him. They will not know him in the next world to be the squire, the peer, the prince. Death is a dreadful leveller. Envy not the great man of this world. “His glory shall not descend...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away,.... Such men, with all their riches and honour, must die; therefore why should men be afraid of them? or wherein are they to be accounted of, whose breath is in their nostrils? nor can they carry either of them with them; their riches will be of no profit to them after death, when they will be upon a...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Though while he lived he blessed his soul,.... Praised and extolled himself on account of his acquisitions and merit; or proclaimed himself a happy man, because of his wealth and riches; or foolishly flattered himself with peace, prosperity, and length of days, and even with honour and glory after death; and [men] will praise thee, when thou doest...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself. Not “when thou doest good,” mark; for often when you do good, men will criticize and censure; -- and, the better the deaf, the more sure is it to provoke the contempt of many. But “men will praise thee when thou doest well to thyself.” A shrewd...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He shall go to the generation of his fathers,.... Be gathered to them at death; or "to the dwelling place of his fathers" (m); either the grave, or hell, or both; the habitation of his wicked ancestors: unless the words be rendered, as they are by some, though "he shall come to the age of his fathers" (n); live as long as they have done; yet he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light. They are sleeping in the grave. So shall he, and beyond the grave there is nothing but darkness for him whose heart is set on this world.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Man [that is] in honour,.... A wicked man, as the Targum; [See comments on Psalms 49:12]; and understandeth not; from whence his riches and honour, come, and what use he should make of them, and for what end he has them; or that understandeth not spiritual things, which relate to the salvation of his soul; who does not know God in Christ, nor the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. Understanding, and the fear of the Lord which is the beginning thereof, and not earthly honour, is our only succor in the day of death.