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New Living Translation

Psalms 49:9

to live forever and never see the grave.

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

English Revised Version
That he should still live alway, that he should not see corruption.
Update Bible Version
That he should still live always, That he should not see corruption.
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.
Webster's Bible Translation
That he should still live for ever, [and] not see corruption.
World English Bible
That he should live on forever, That he should not see corruption.
Amplified Bible
So that he should live on eternally, That he should never see the pit (grave) and undergo decay.
English Standard Version
that he should live on forever and never see the pit.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he schal lyue yit in to the ende.
Berean Standard Bible
that he should live on forever and not see decay.
Contemporary English Version
to stay alive forever and safe from death.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
That he may liue still for euer, and not see the graue.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Young's Literal Translation
And still he liveth for ever, He seeth not the pit.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yee though he lyue loge, & se not ye graue.
New American Standard Bible
That he might live on eternally, That he might not undergo decay.
New King James Version
That he should continue to live eternally, And not see the Pit.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
That he should live on eternally, That he should not undergo decay.
Legacy Standard Bible
That he should live on eternally,That he should not see corruption.

Contextual Overview

6 They trust in their wealth and boast of great riches. 7 Yet they cannot redeem themselves from death by paying a ransom to God. 8 Redemption does not come so easily, for no one can ever pay enough 9 to live forever and never see the grave. 10 Those who are wise must finally die, just like the foolish and senseless, leaving all their wealth behind. 11 The grave is their eternal home, where they will stay forever. They may name their estates after themselves, 12 but their fame will not last. They will die, just like animals. 13 This is the fate of fools, though they are remembered as being wise. Interlude 14 Like sheep, they are led to the grave, where death will be their shepherd. In the morning the godly will rule over them. Their bodies will rot in the grave, far from their grand estates.

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
These people rise up like a lioness, like a majestic lion rousing itself. They refuse to rest until they have feasted on prey, drinking the blood of the slaughtered!"
Numbers 24:9
Like a lion, Israel crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to arouse her? Blessed is everyone who blesses you, O Israel, and cursed is everyone who curses you."
Ezekiel 19:5
"When the lioness saw that her hopes for him were gone, she took another of her cubs and taught him to be a strong young lion.
Hosea 5:4
Your deeds won't let you return to your God. You are a prostitute through and through, and you do not know the Lord .
Hosea 5:14
I will be like a lion to Israel, like a strong young lion to Judah. I will tear them to pieces! I will carry them off, and no one will be left to rescue them.
Micah 5:8
The remnant left in Israel will take their place among the nations. They will be like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a strong young lion among flocks of sheep and goats, pouncing and tearing as they go with no rescuer in sight.
1 Corinthians 15:24
After that the end will come, when he will turn the Kingdom over to God the Father, having destroyed every ruler and authority and power.
Revelation 5:5
But one of the twenty-four elders said to me, "Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the heir to David's throne, has won the victory. He is worthy to open the scroll and its seven seals."

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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