Psalm 49:13 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

This is the final outcome for fools and their followers who are delighted by what they say: Selah(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve 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.)

DBY:

This their way is their folly, yet they that come after them delight in their sayings. Selah.

ERV:

This their way is their folly: yet after them men approve their sayings. Selah

JPS:

This is the way of them that are foolish, and of those who after them approve their sayings. Selah

WBS:

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

WEB:

This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.

YLT:

This their way is folly for them, And their posterity with their sayings are pleased. Selah.

Psalm 49:13 Cross References

XREF:

Psalm 49:18 Though while he lives he congratulates himself-- And though men praise you when you do well for yourself--

Jeremiah 17:11 "As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid, So is he who makes a fortune, but unjustly; In the midst of his days it will forsake him, And in the end he will be a fool." (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

49:13 This their way [is] their folly: yet their posterity {i} approve their sayings. Selah.
(i) They speak and do the same thing that their fathers did.

WES:

49:13 Way - Their contrivance to immortalize themselves.

MHC:

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 inward thoughts, are about the world; that lies nearest the heart. But with all their wealth they cannot save the life of the dearest friend they have. This looks further, to the eternal redemption to be wrought out by the Messiah. The redemption of the soul shall cost very dear; but, being once wrought, it shall never need to be repeated. And he, the Redeemer, shall rise again before he sees corruption, and then shall live for evermore, Re 1:18. This likewise shows the folly of worldly people, who sell their souls for that which will never buy them. With all their wealth they cannot secure themselves from the stroke of death. Yet one generation after another applaud their maxims; and the character of a fool, as drawn by heavenly Wisdom itself, Lu 12:16-21, continues to be followed even among professed Christians. Death will ask the proud sinner, Where is thy wealth, thy pomp? And in the morning of the resurrection, when all that sleep in the dust shall awake, the upright shall be advanced to the highest honour, when the wicked shall be filled with everlasting shame and contempt, Da 12:2. Let us now judge of things as they will appear in that day. The beauty of holiness is that alone which the grave cannot touch, or damage.

CONC:

Approve Confidence Delight Destiny Fate Followers Folly Foolish Gold Pleased Pleasure Portion Posterity Sayings Selah Silver Themselves Trust Yet

Approve Children Confidence Destiny End Fate Followers Folly Foolish Gold Pleased Pleasure Portion Posterity Sayings Selah Silver Themselves Trust Way Words

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