Psalm 49:4 Parallel Translations
NASB: I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle on the harp. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: I will turn my attention to a proverb. I will explain my riddle with the music of a lyre.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
ASV: I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
BBE: I will put my teaching into a story; I will make my dark sayings clear with music.
DBY: I will incline mine ear to a parable, I will open my riddle upon the harp.
ERV: I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
JPS: I will incline mine ear to a parable; I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
WBS: I will incline my ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
WEB: I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.
YLT: I incline to a simile mine ear, I open with a harp my riddle:
Psalm 49:4 Cross References
XREF:Numbers 12:8 With him I speak mouth to mouth, Even openly, and not in dark sayings, And he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid To speak against My servant, against Moses?"

2 Kings 3:15 "But now bring me a minstrel." And it came about, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.

Psalm 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old, (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
WES: 49:4 I will - I will hearken what God by his Spirit speaks to me, and that will I now speak to you. A parable - Which properly is an allegorical speech, but is often taken for an important, and withal, dark doctrine or sentence. Open - I will not smother it in my own breast, but publish it to the world. Dark - So he calls the following discourse, because the thing in question ever hath been thought hard to be understood.
MHC: 49:1-5 We seldom meet with a more solemn introduction: there is no truth of greater importance. Let all hear this with application to ourselves. The poor are in danger from undue desire toward the wealth of the world, as rich people from undue delight in it. The psalmist begins with applying it to himself, and that is the right method in which to treat of Divine things. Before he sets down the folly of carnal security, he lays down, from his own experience, the benefit and comfort of a holy, gracious security, which they enjoy who trust in God, and not in their worldly wealth. In the day of judgment, the iniquity of our heels, or of our steps, our past sins, will compass us. In those days, worldly, wicked people will be afraid; but wherefore should a man fear death who has God with him?
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