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Mazmur 49:16
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(49-17) Janganlah takut, apabila seseorang menjadi kaya, apabila kemuliaan keluarganya bertambah,
Tetapi Allah akan menebus jiwaku dari pada kuasa kubur, karena Iapun akan mengangkat aku. -- Selah.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Be not: Psalms 49:5, Psalms 37:1, Psalms 37:7, Esther 3:1-6, Proverbs 28:12
glory: Genesis 31:1, Esther 5:11, Revelation 21:24, Revelation 21:26
Reciprocal: Job 15:29 - neither shall Job 19:9 - stripped Psalms 4:6 - many Proverbs 4:7 - with Isaiah 10:3 - where Jeremiah 9:23 - wise Matthew 4:8 - and showeth Matthew 19:23 - That Luke 6:24 - woe Luke 16:22 - the rich
Cross-References
Then saide Rachel: God hath geuen sentence on my side, and hath also heard my voyce, and hath geuen me a sonne: therfore called she hym Dan.
And Iacob called for his sonnes, and sayde: Come together, that I may tell you what shall come on you in the last dayes.
Gather ye together, & heare ye sonnes of Iacob, hearken vnto Israel your father.
But his bowe abode fast, and the armes of his handes were made strong by the handes of the myghtie God of Iacob: Out of him shal come an heardman, a stone in Israel.
From thy fathers God which hath helped thee, and from the almyghtie which hath blessed thee with blessinges from heauen aboue, with blessynges of the deepe that lyeth vnder, & with blessynges of the brestes and of the wombe.
The blessynges of thy fathers shall be stronger then the blessinges of my elders: vnto the vtmost of the hylles of the worlde, they shalbe on the head of Ioseph, and on the toppe of the head of hym that was seperate from his brethren.
Beniamin shall rauishe as a wolfe: In the mornyng he shall deuour the pray, and at nyght he shall deuide the spoyle.
And the standerd of the hoast of the children of Dan came foorth (gathering all the hoastes together) throughout their armies, whose captaine was Ahiezer the sonne of Ammi Saddai.
And vnto Dan he sayde: Dan is a Lions whelpe, he shal leape fro Basan.
And there was a man in Zaraah of the kinred of Dan, named Manoah, whose wife was barren, and bare not.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Be not thou afraid when one is made rich,.... Who before was poor, or not so rich; but now become so, either by inheritance, or by his own diligence and industry, through the permission of Providence. This is to be understood, not of a good man, from whom oppression is not to be feared; but it may be hoped he will do good with his riches, by relieving the poor, and ministering to the support of the interest of religion, and using what power and authority he may have in defence of it: but it is to be interpreted of a wicked man; of one who neither fears God, nor regards man; who makes an ill use of his riches, power, and authority, to the oppression of the poor, and the persecution of the saints, and who seeks to be feared when he is not loved; see
Proverbs 28:12; but the people of God should not be afraid when this is the case, since God is their strength, their light, and their salvation; and since wicked men can go no further than permitted, and at most can do no more than kill the body; see Psalms 27:1; these words are an apostrophe of the psalmist, either to his own soul, or to the saints, and every particular believer;
when the glory of his house is increased; either the same with riches, so called, Genesis 31:1; because men are apt to glory in them, and for the most part obtain honour and glory from men by them; or children, and an increase of them, and especially when they come to honour; as also the advancement of themselves to high places of honour and trust; as well as additional buildings, large stately edifices, to make them look great, and perpetuate their names.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Be not thou afraid when one is made rich - Do not dread the power derived from wealth; do not fear anything which a man can do merely because he is rich. The original is, “when a “man” becomes rich.” The allusion is not necessarily to a bad man, though that is implied in the whole passage, since there is no reason for fearing a “good” man, whether he is rich or poor. The only thing that seems to have been apprehended in the mind of the psalmist was that power of doing injury to others, or of employing means to injure others, which wealth confers on a bad man. The psalmist here changes the form of the expression, no longer referring to himself, and to his own feelings, as in the former part of the psalm, but making an application of the whole course of thought to others, showing them, as the result of his own reflection and observation, that no man had any real cause for dread and alarm when riches increased in the hands of the wicked. The reasons why this power should not be feared are stated in the following verses.
When the glory of his house is increased - Rich people often lavish much of their wealth on their dwellings; on the dwelling itself; on the furniture; on the grounds and appendages of their habitation. This is evidently referred to here as “the “glory” of their house;” as that which would be adapted to make an impression of the power and rank of its possessor.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 49:16. Be not thou afraid when one is made rich — Do not be envious; do not grieve: it will do you no harm; it will do him no good. All he gets will be left behind; he can carry nothing with him. Even his glory must stay behind; he shall mingle with the common earth.
