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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Psalms 49:8
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since the price of redeeming him is too costly,one should forever stop trying—
For the redemption of their life is costly, No payment is ever enough,
(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
for the ransom of their life is costly and can never suffice,
because the price of a life is high. No payment is ever enough.
(the ransom price for a human life is too high, and people go to their final destiny),
For the ransom of his soul is too costly, And he should cease trying forever—
For the redemption of his soul is priceless, And he should cease imagining forever—
For the redemption of their life is costly, No payment is ever enough,
(So precious is the redemption of their soules, and the continuance for euer)
For the redemption price for their soul is costly,And it ceases forever—
For the redemption of his soul is costly, and never can payment suffice,
It costs far too much to buy back your life. You can never pay God enough
No one can ever redeem his brother or give God a ransom for him ,
(For the redemption of their soul is costly, and must be given up for ever,)
You will never get enough money to pay for your own life.
For the redemption of their souls is precious:
because the payment for a human life is too great. What we could pay would never be enough
(since the redemption price for their life is costly and it always fails),
for the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceases forever,
For it costeth more to redeme their soules, so that he must let that alone for euer.
(For the redemption of their life is costly, And it faileth for ever),
(Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.)
No man can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him--
(For the redemption of their soule is precious, and it ceaseth for euer.)
For the redemption of their soule is very costly, and must be let alone for euer:
or the price of the redemption of his soul, though he labour for ever,
(For the redemption of their soul is costly, and must be let alone for ever:)
And he schal not yyue the prijs of raunsum of his soule; and he schal trauele with outen ende,
(For the redemption of their life is costly, And it fails forever;)
(For the redemption of their soul [is] precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
For the redemption of their souls is costly, And it shall cease forever--
Redemption does not come so easily, for no one can ever pay enough
The cost is much for his soul to be saved. Man should stop trying
For the ransom of life is costly, and can never suffice,
(48-9) Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever,
for the ransom of his life is costly, and can never suffice,
And precious [is] the redemption of their soul, And it hath ceased -- to the age.
For the redemption of his soul is costly, And he should cease trying forever—
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Job 36:18, Job 36:19
Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:31 - they may be redeemed 1 Samuel 26:21 - my soul 2 Kings 1:14 - let my life Job 6:23 - Redeem Job 33:24 - I Matthew 16:26 - or Mark 8:37 - General Luke 7:42 - when 1 Corinthians 15:55 - is thy victory 1 Peter 1:18 - ye
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Let peoples serve thee And races bow down to thee, Become thou lord to thy brethren, And let the sons of thy mother bow down to thee, - He that curseth thee, be accursed! And he that blesseth thee, be blessed!
And she conceived again and bare a son, and said This time, will I praise Yahweh, For which cause, she called his name Judah. And she left off bearing.
Now, Joseph - he, it was, that was in power over the land, he, it was that was selling corn to all the people of the land, - so Joseph's brethren came in, and bowed themselves down to him, with their faces to the earth.
And the sons of Judah, - Er and Onan and Shelah, and Perez and Zerah, - but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan, and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul;
Then called Jacob unto his sons, - and said - Gather yourselves together, and let me tell you, that which shall befall you in the afterpart of the days.
Assemble yourselves and hear ye sons of Jacob, - And hearken unto Israel your father!
Accursed, be their anger, because fierce, And their wrath because cruel, - I divide them in Jacob, And I disperse them in Israel.
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor the commanders staff a from between his feet, - Until that he come in as a Shiloh, And, his, be the obedience of the peoples:
Binding, to the vine, his ass, And to the choice vine his ass's colt, He hath washed in wine his raiment, And in the blood of grapes, his mantle:
Darker - his eyes, than wine, - Whiter - his teeth than milk!
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For the redemption of their soul [is] precious,.... Or "heavy" s; it is, as Jarchi observes, "heavier than their substance": it is too weighty a matter for the richest man in the world to engage in; he is not equal to it; his riches are not an equivalent to the redemption of a soul which has sinned, and which is of more worth than the whole world: "what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" or another for him? all the substance of his house would be utterly despised. It requires a greater price for the redemption of it than gold and silver, and therefore it is impossible to be obtained by any such means; and which may be the sense of the word here, as Jarchi and Kimchi interpret it; and so it is used for that which is "rare", "difficult", yea, "impossible", not to be found or come at, in 1 Samuel 3:1. The only price of redemption of the soul is the precious blood of Christ; his life is the ransom price, yea, he himself, 1 Peter 1:18 1 Timothy 2:6; nor is the redemption of the soul possible upon any other ground;
and it ceaseth for ever; that is, the redemption of the soul; it must have ceased, it could never have been accomplished, had not Christ undertook it and performed it; he has obtained eternal redemption, and in him we have it, and in no other. Or the words may be rendered, "and he ceaseth for ever"; the brother, whose soul or life is to be redeemed, he dies; see Psalms 12:1; and dies the second and eternal death, for aught his brother can do for him, with all his riches: or he that attempts to redeem him, "he leaves off for ever" t; see Psalms 36:3; whether he will or not, as Jarchi observes; he ceases from redeeming his brother; he finds he cannot do it; his endeavours are vain and fruitless. Some join and connect these words with the following, "and it ceaseth for ever, that he should still live for ever", c. that is, it is impossible that such an one by such means should live for ever. Gussetius u renders and interprets the words quite to another sense, "but the redemption of their soul shall come": the true redemption price by Christ and which, being once paid and perfectly done, "ceaseth for ever", and shall never be required more; so that he for whom it is made "shall live for ever", as in Psalms 49:9, which is a truly evangelic sense.
s ×קר "gravis", De Dieu, Michaelis. t ××× "definet", Montanus, Vatablus. u Ebr. Comment. p. 345.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For the redemption of their soul is precious - The word âsoulâ here means âlife,â and not the immortal part. The only question which the psalmist here considers is the value of wealth in preserving âlife,â or in saving man from the grave. The phrase, ââtheirâ soul,â refers doubtless to the man and his brother, as alluded to in the previous verse. The idea is that neither can the man of wealth ransom his own life from the grave, nor the life of his brother. Wealth can save neither of them. The word âpreciousâ means âcostly,â âvaluable.â The word is applied 1 Kings 10:2, 1 Kings 10:10-11 to gems, and then to the costlier kinds of stones employed in building, as marble and hewn-stones, 2 Chronicles 3:6. Compare the notes at Psalms 36:7. The idea here is, that the rescue of the life, or the saving from the grave, would be too âcostly;â it would be beyond the power of all wealth to purchase it; no amount of silver or gold, or raiment, or precious stones, could âconstituteâ a sufficient âpriceâ to secure it.
And it ceaseth for ever - That is, Wealth forever comes short of the power necessary to accomplish this. It has always been insufficient; it always âwillâ be. There is no hope that it âeverâ will be sufficient; that by any increase in the amount - or by any change in the conditions of the bargain - property or riches can avail for this. The whole matter is perfectly âhopelessâ as to the power of wealth in saving one human being from the grave. It must always âfailâ in saving a man from death. The word rendered âceasethâ - ××× chaÌdal - means âto leave off, to desist, to fail,â Genesis 11:8; Exodus 9:34; Isaiah 2:22. As there is no allusion here to the redemption of the âsoulâ - the immortal part - this passage affirms nothing in regard to the fact that the work of redemption by the Saviour is completed or finished, and that an atonement cannot be made again, which is true; nor to the fact that when salvation through that atonement is rejected, all hope of redemption is at an end, which is also true. But though there is, originally, no such reference here, the âlanguageâ is such as is âadaptedâ to express that idea. In a much higher and more important sense than any which pertains to the power of wealth in saving from the grave, it is true tint the work of the atonement ceased for ever when the Redeemer expired on the cross, and that all hope of salvation ceases forever when the atonement is rejected, and when man refuses to be saved by his blood; nothing then can save the soul. No other sacrifice will be made, and when a man has finally rejected the Saviour, it may be said in the highest sense of the term, that the redemption of the soul is too costly to be effected by any other means, and that all hope of its salvation âhas ceasedâ forever.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 49:8. For the redemption of their soul is precious — It is of too high a price to be redeemed with corruptible things, such as silver or gold, and has required the sacrificial death of Christ.
And it ceaseth for ever — This is very obscure, and may apply to the ransom which riches could produce. That ransom must be for ever unavailable, because of the value of the soul. Or this clause should be added to the following verse, and read thus: "And though he cease to be, (×××× vechadal,) during the hidden time, (××¢××× leolam;) yet he shall live on through eternity, (×××× ×¢×× ×× ×¦× vichi od lanetsach,) and not see corruption." This is probably the dark saying which it was the design of the author to utter in a parable, and leave it to the ingenuity of posterity to find it out. The verb ××× chadal signifies a cessation of being or action, and ×¢××× olam often signifies hidden time, that which is not defined, and the end of which is not ascertained, though it is frequently used to express endless duration. This translation requires no alteration of the original text, and conveys a precise and consistent meaning.
