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Myles Coverdale Bible

Psalms 49:9

Yee though he lyue loge, & se not ye graue.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Boasting;   Corruption;   Death;   Immortality;   Thompson Chain Reference - Body;   Corruption;   The Topic Concordance - Folly;   Trust;   Uprightness;   Wealth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Riches;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Korah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Life;   Pit;   Redeem, Redemption;   Sheol;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hope;   Pit;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Eschatology;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Korah, Korahites;   Psalms;   Sin;   Wealth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Eschatology (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Korah;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - God;   Yiẓḥaḳ ben Parnak;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
so that he may live foreverand not see the Pit.
Hebrew Names Version
That he should live on forever, That he should not see corruption.
King James Version
That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
English Standard Version
that he should live on forever and never see the pit.
New Century Version
Do people live forever? Don't they all face death?
New English Translation
so that he might continue to live forever and not experience death.
Amplified Bible
So that he should live on eternally, That he should never see the pit (grave) and undergo decay.
New American Standard Bible
That he might live on eternally, That he might not undergo decay.
World English Bible
That he should live on forever, That he should not see corruption.
Geneva Bible (1587)
That he may liue still for euer, and not see the graue.
Legacy Standard Bible
That he should live on eternally,That he should not see corruption.
Berean Standard Bible
that he should live on forever and not see decay.
Contemporary English Version
to stay alive forever and safe from death.
Complete Jewish Bible
because the price for him is too high (leave the idea completely alone!)
Darby Translation
That he should still live perpetually, [and] not see corruption.
Easy-to-Read Version
You will never have enough to buy the right to live forever and keep your body out of the grave.
George Lamsa Translation
Do good for ever and you shall live for ever, and not see corruption.
Good News Translation
to keep us from the grave, to let us live forever.
Lexham English Bible
so that he may stay alive forever and not see the pit.
Literal Translation
for he shall yet live forever; he shall never see corruption.
American Standard Version
That he should still live alway, That he should not see corruption.
Bible in Basic English
So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For too costly is the redemption of their soul, and must be let alone for ever--
King James Version (1611)
That he should still liue for euer, and not see corruption.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
yea though he lyue long and see not the graue.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and live to the end, so that he should not see corruption.
English Revised Version
That he should still live alway, that he should not see corruption.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he schal lyue yit in to the ende.
Update Bible Version
That he should still live always, That he should not see corruption.
Webster's Bible Translation
That he should still live for ever, [and] not see corruption.
New King James Version
That he should continue to live eternally, And not see the Pit.
New Living Translation
to live forever and never see the grave.
New Life Bible
to live forever and not see the grave.
New Revised Standard
that one should live on forever and never see the grave.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
That he should, yet, live on, continually, Should not see corruption.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(48-10) And shall still live unto the end.
Revised Standard Version
that he should continue to live on for ever, and never see the Pit.
Young's Literal Translation
And still he liveth for ever, He seeth not the pit.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
That he should live on eternally, That he should not undergo decay.

Contextual Overview

6 They that put their trust in their good, & boost them selues in the multitude of their riches. 7 No man maye deliuer his brother, ner make agrement for him vnto God. 8 For it costeth more to redeme their soules, so that he must let that alone for euer. 9 Yee though he lyue loge, & se not ye graue. 10 For it shal be sene, yt soch wyse me shal dye & perishe together, as well as the ignoraunt and foolish, & leaue their goodes for other. 11 Loke what is in their houses, it cotinueth still: their dwellinge places endure from one generacion to another, & are called after their owne names vpon the earth, 12 Neuerthelesse ma abydeth not insoch honor, but is copared vnto ye brute beastes, & becometh like vnto the. 13 This waie of theirs is very foolishnesse, & yet their posterite prayse it wt their mouth. 14 Sela. They lye in the hell like shepe, death shal gnawe vpon them, & the rightuous shal haue dominacion of them in the mornynge by tymes: their stregth shal consume, & hell shalbe their dwellinge.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

That he: Psalms 89:48, Proverbs 10:2, Proverbs 11:4, Ecclesiastes 8:8, Zechariah 1:5, Luke 16:22, Luke 16:23

see: Psalms 16:10, John 8:51, John 8:52, Acts 2:27, Acts 2:31, Acts 13:33, Acts 13:35-37

Reciprocal: Genesis 47:29 - must die Job 17:14 - corruption John 11:39 - Lord Acts 13:36 - and saw 1 Corinthians 15:42 - in corruption 1 Peter 4:14 - reproached

Cross-References

Numbers 23:24
Beholde, the people shall ryse vp as a Lyonesse, & heue vp him self as a Lyon. He shal not lye downe, tyll he eate of the pray, and drynke the bloude of the slayne.
Numbers 24:9
He hath layed him downe as a Lyon and as a Lyonesse. Who wyll rayse him vp? Blessed be he, yt blesseth the: and cursed, that curseth the.
Ezekiel 19:5
Now when the damme sawe, that all hir hope & comforth was awaye, she toke another of hir whelpes, and made a lyon of him:
Hosea 5:4
They are not mynded to turne vnto their God, for they haue an whorish herte, so yt they can not knowe the LORDE.
Hosea 5:14
I am vnto Ephraim as a lyon, and as a lyons whelpe to the house of Iuda. Euen I, I wil spoyle them, & go my waye. I wil take them with me, and no man shal rescue them.
Micah 5:8
Yee the residue of Iacob shalbe amonge the Gentiles and the multitude off people, as the lyon amonge the beestes of ye wodde, and as the lyons whelpe amonge a flocke of shepe: which (when he goeth thorow) treadeth downe, teareth in peces, and there is no man that can helpe.
1 Corinthians 15:24
Then the ende, wha he shal delyuer vp the kyngdome vnto God the father, whan he shal put downe all rule, and all superiorite, & power.
Revelation 5:5
And one of the elders sayde vnto me: wepe not: Beholde, the lyon which is off the trybe of Iuda, ye rote of Dauid, hath obtayned to ope the boke, and to lowse the seue seales therof.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That he should still live for ever,.... Or "though he should live", c. w. Though the rich man should live ever so long, a thousand years twice told, as in Ecclesiastes 6:6 yet he could not in all this time, with all his riches, redeem his brother; and at last must die himself, and so must his brother too, as his own experience and observation may assure him, Psalms 49:10. Or the meaning is, he cannot so redeem his brother, or give to God a ransom for him, that he should live a corporeal life for ever, and never die; since all men die, wise men and fools, rich and poor; and much less that he should live and enjoy an "eternal life", as the Targum; a life of happiness and bliss hereafter, which is not to be obtained by gold and silver, but is the pure gift of God;

[and] not see corruption; the grave, the pit of corruption, the house appointed for all living: or "the judgment of hell", according to the Chaldee paraphrase.

w ויהי "etiamsi vivat", Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That he should still live for ever - That his brother whom he could not redeem - or that he himself - should not die, Psalms 49:8. The idea is, that the price of life is so great that no wealth can rescue it so that a man shall not die.

And not see corruption - Should not return to dust, or moulder away in the grave. See the notes at Psalms 16:10.


 
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