Psalms 49:13
This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
Psalms 49:13 in other translations
| BSB | This is the fate of the self-confident and their followers who endorse their sayings. Selah |
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| WEB | This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah. |
| ASV | This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings. [Selah |
| YLT | This their way is folly for them, And their posterity with their sayings are pleased. Selah. |
| DARBY | This their way is their folly, yet they that come after them delight in their sayings. Selah. |
| BBE | This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.) |
| Webster | This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah. |
What does Psalms 49:13 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 49:6-14
Here is a description of the spirit and way of worldly people. A man may have wealth, and may have his heart enlarged in love, thankfulness, and obedience, and may do good with it. Therefore it is not men's having riches that proves them to be worldly, but their setting their hearts upon them as the best things. Worldly men have only some floating thoughts of the things of God, while their fixed thoughts, their…
Psalms 49:13 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 49:13
- Luke 12:20
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
- 1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
- Luke 16:27-28
Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
- Jeremiah 44:17
But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
- Luke 11:47-48
Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
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- Psalms 49:12
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
- Psalms 49:13
This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
- 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.
Psalms 49:13 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Este su camino es su locura: con todo, corren sus descendientes por el dicho de ellos. (Selah.) |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Pourtant l’homme qui est en honneur ne dure pas; il est semblable aux bêtes qui périssent. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Dieser ihr Weg ist ihre Torheit; und die nach ihnen kommen, haben Wohlgefallen an ihren Worten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Numquid manducabo carnes taurorum? aut sanguinem hircorum potabo? |