Salmos 49:10

La Biblia de las Americas

Porque él ve que aun los sabios mueren; el torpe y el necio perecen de igual manera, y dejan sus riquezas a otros.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Pues se ve que mueren los sabios, As� como el insensato y el necio perecen, Y dejan � otros sus riquezas.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Pues �l ve que mueren los sabios; igualmente perecen el insensato y el necio, y dejan a otros sus riquezas.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Pues se ve que mueren todos los sabios; el loco y el ignorante perecen, y dejan a otros sus riquezas.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wise: Ecclesiastes 2:16-21, Ecclesiastes 9:1, Ecclesiastes 9:2, Romans 5:12-14, Hebrews 9:27

fool: Psalms 73:22, Psalms 92:6, Psalms 92:7, Psalms 94:8, Proverbs 12:1, Proverbs 30:2, Jeremiah 10:8

leave: Psalms 49:17, Psalms 17:14, Psalms 39:6, Proverbs 11:4, Ecclesiastes 2:18, Ecclesiastes 2:19, Ecclesiastes 2:21, Ecclesiastes 2:26, Ecclesiastes 5:13-16, Jeremiah 17:11, Luke 12:20, 1 Timothy 6:6-10

Reciprocal: Joshua 24:33 - died Job 30:8 - children Psalms 37:10 - wicked Psalms 94:11 - General Proverbs 14:24 - foolishness Ecclesiastes 2:14 - one Ecclesiastes 12:5 - because Jeremiah 9:23 - wise Daniel 11:7 - one stand Matthew 5:22 - fool Luke 16:8 - in 2 Peter 2:12 - as natural

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For he seeth [that] wise men die,.... This is a reason convincing the rich man, that with all his riches he cannot redeem his brother from death; since he must see, by daily and constant experience, that none are exempted from dying, no, not even the wise man; and therefore, not the rich, since wisdom is better than riches, and is said to give life, Ecclesiastes 7:12; and yet wise men die, yea, Solomon, the wisest of men, died. Worldly wise men, such who are wiser in their generation than the children of light, know how, to get money and estates, and to provide for futurity, and yet cannot secure themselves from death: men that are wise in natural things, know the secrets of nature, the constitution of human bodies, what is proper to preserve health and life, as philosophers and physicians, and yet cannot deliver themselves from death: wise politicians, prudent magistrates, instructors of mankind in all the branches of useful knowledge, who are profitable to themselves and others, and are the most deserving to live because of usefulness, yet these die as well as others: such as are spiritually wise, wise unto salvation, who know themselves, and know Christ, whom to know is life eternal; and the wisest among them, such as are capable of teaching others the hidden and mysterious wisdom of God; even these wise men and prophets do not live for ever. The Targum interprets this of wicked wise men, condemned to hell; or as it is in the king's Bible,

"the wicked wise men, who die the second death;''

see Revelation 2:11; and are condemned to hell;

likewise the fool and the brutish person perish; the worldly fool, who trusts in his riches, and boasts of them; his soul is at once required of him. The atheistical fool, who says there is no God, no judgment, no future state; has made a covenant with death, and with hell is at an agreement; this covenant does not stand, he dies, and finds himself dreadfully mistaken: the fool that is so immorally, who makes a mock at sin, a jest of religion, and puts away the evil day far from him; his great wickedness, to which he is given, shall not deliver him from death. Every man is become brutish in his knowledge; but there are some among the people more brutish than others, who are as natural brute beasts, and shall utterly perish in their own corruptions. The wise good man dies, but perishes not; he inherits eternal life; but the wicked fool and brute not only perish by death, but are punished with everlasting destruction in soul and body;

and leave their wealth to others; they cannot carry it with them, so that it will be of no service to them after death any more than at it: if the Judge could be bribed by gold, as he cannot, they will not have it with them to do it; they came into the world naked, and so they will go out, and carry nothing with them, but leave all behind them; either to their babes, their children, and heirs, Psalms 17:14; or to strangers, they know not who; and if they do, they do not know whether they will be wise men or fools, or what use they will make of it, Psalms 39:6 Ecclesiastes 2:18.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For he seeth that wise men die - He must see this; he does see it. He perceives that no one can be saved from death. It comes on all alike - the wise and the unwise. Nothing saves from it. The allusion is here especially to the “rich,” whether “they” are wise or whether they are fools and “brutish.” The simple fact, as stated, is that no matter what may be the character of the man of wealth, whether wise or foolish, he must certainly die His wealth cannot save him from the grave. The possessor of wealth himself “sees” this. It cannot be concealed from him.

Likewise the fool - The rich man who is a fool, or who is destitute of wisdom. He who is rich and who is wise - wise in the things of this life and wise unto salvation - (or who is gifted with a high degree of intelligence and who evinces wisdom in respect to the higher matters of existence) - and the rich man who is a fool - (who is regardless of his highest interests, and who evinces no special intelligence, though possessed of wealth) - all, all die alike.

And the brutish person - The rich man who is stupid and dull; who lives like a brute; who lives to eat and drink; who lives for gross sensuality - “he” dies as well as he who is wise. Wealth cannot in either case save from death. Whether connected with wisdom or folly - whether carefully husbanded or lavishly spent - whether a man employs it in the highest and noblest manner in which it can be devoted, or in the indulgence of the most low and debasing enjoyments - it is alike powerless in saving people from the grave.

And leave their wealth to others - It all passes into other hands. It “must” be so left. It cannot be carried away by its possessor when he goes into the eternal world. It not only cannot save him from the grave, but he cannot even take it with him. All his houses, his lands, his title-deeds, his silver, his gold, his parks, gardens, horses, hounds - all that he had accumulated with so much care, and worshipped with so idolatrous an affection, is not even his own in the sense that he can take it with him. The title passes absolutely into other hands, and even if he could come back to earth again, he could no longer claim it, for when he dies it ceases to be his forever. How powerless, then, is wealth in reference to the great purposes of human existence!

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 49:10. For he seeth that wise men die — Though they may be rich, and their wisdom teach them the best method of managing their riches so as to derive all the good from them they can possibly produce, yet they die as well as the fool and the poor ignorant man; and their wealth is left to others who will be equally disappointed in their expectation from it.