Psalm 49:18 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Even though he blesses himself while he is alive (and they praise you when you do well for yourself),(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

ASV:

Though while he lived he blessed his soul (And men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself,)

BBE:

Though he might have pride in his soul in his life-time, and men will give you praise if you do well for yourself,

DBY:

Though he blessed his soul in his lifetime, and men will praise thee when thou doest well to thyself, --

ERV:

Though while he lived he blessed his soul, and men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself,

JPS:

Though while he lived he blessed his soul: 'Men will praise thee, when thou shalt do well to thyself';

WBS:

Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

WEB:

Though while he lived he blessed his soul-- and men praise you when you do well for yourself--

YLT:

For his soul in his life he blesseth, (And they praise thee when thou dost well for thyself.)

Psalm 49:18 Cross References

XREF:

Deuteronomy 29:19 "It shall be when he hears the words of this curse, that he will boast, saying, 'I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart in order to destroy the watered land with the dry.'

Psalm 10:3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, And the greedy man curses and spurns the LORD.

Psalm 10:6 He says to himself, "I will not be moved; Throughout all generations I will not be in adversity."

Luke 12:19 And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry."' (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and {n} [men] will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
(n) The flatterers praise them who live in delight and pleasures.

WES:

49:18 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.

MHC:

49:15-20 Believers should not fear death. The distinction of men's outward conditions, how great soever in life, makes none at death; but the difference of men's spiritual states, though in this life it may seem of small account, yet at and after death is very great. The soul is often put for the life. The God of life, who was its Creator at first, can and will be its Redeemer at last. It includes the salvation of the soul from eternal ruin. Believers will be under strong temptation to envy the prosperity of sinners. Men will praise thee, and cry thee up, as having done well for thyself in raising an estate and family. But what will it avail to be approved of men, if God condemn us? Those that are rich in the graces and comforts of the Spirit, have something of which death cannot strip them, nay, which death will improve; but as for worldly possessions, as we brought nothing into the world, so it is certain that we shall carry nothing out; we must leave all to others. The sum of the whole matter is, that it can profit a man nothing to gain the whole world, to become possessed of all its wealth and all its power, if he lose his own soul, and is cast away for want of that holy and heavenly wisdom which distinguishes man from the brutes, in his life and at his death. And are there men who can prefer the lot of the rich sinner to that of poor Lazarus, in life and death, and to eternity? Assuredly there are. What need then we have of the teaching of the Holy Ghost; when, with all our boasted powers, we are prone to such folly in the most important of all concerns!

CONC:

Blessed Blesseth Congratulates Counted Counts Doest Gets Happy Lifetime Life-time Praise Pride Prosper Soul Though Thyself Yourself-

Blessed Blesseth Counted Counts Gets Happy Life-Time Praise Pride Prosper Soul Thyself

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