诗篇 49:13

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

這就是愚昧人的道路；但在他們以後的人，還欣賞他們的話。（細拉）

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 们 行 的 这 道 本 为 自 己 的 愚 昧 ； 但 他 们 以 後 的 人 还 佩 服 他 们 的 话 语 。 （ 细 拉 ）

Contextual Overview

⁶ They trust in their money and brag about their riches. ⁷ No one can buy back the life of another. No one can pay God for his own life, ⁸ because the price of a life is high. No payment is ever enough. ⁹ Do people live forever? Don't they all face death? ¹⁰ See, even wise people die. Fools and stupid people also die and leave their wealth to others. ¹¹ Their graves will always be their homes. They will live there from now on, even though they named places after themselves. ¹² Even rich people do not live forever; like the animals, people die. ¹³ This is what will happen to those who trust in themselves and to their followers who believe them. Selah ¹⁴ Like sheep, they must die, and death will be their shepherd. Honest people will rule over them in the morning, and their bodies will rot in a grave far from home.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

folly: Luke 12:20, 1 Corinthians 3:19

approve their sayings: Heb. delight in their mouth, Jeremiah 44:17, Luke 11:47, Luke 11:48, Luke 16:27, Luke 16:28

Reciprocal: Luke 16:15 - for

Cross-References

Genesis 30:20
She said, "God has given me a fine gift. Now surely Jacob will honor me, because I have given him six sons," so she named him Zebulun.

Genesis 49:10
Kings will come from Judah's family; someone from Judah will always be on the throne. Judah will rule until Shiloh comes, and the nations will obey him.

Genesis 49:16
"Dan will rule his own people like the other tribes in Israel.

Genesis 49:18
" Lord , I wait for your salvation.

Genesis 49:19
"Robbers will attack Gad, but he will defeat them and drive them away.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This their way [is] their folly,.... This their last end becoming like the beasts that perish, which is the issue and event of all their confidence, ambition, and honour, shows the folly of their lives and conduct: or this their course of life, in trusting to their riches; boasting of their wealth; pleasing themselves with the thoughts of the continuance of their houses and dwelling places to all generations; and calling their lands after their own names; all proclaim their folly. Or, as some render the words, "this their way [is] their hope" or "confidence" b; they place all their hope and confidence in their riches and honour, which is but a vain hope and a foolish confidence;

yet their posterity approve their sayings; they are of the same sentiments with their fathers; they say the same things, and do the same actions; tread in their steps, and follow the same track; though there have been such innumerable instances of the vanity and inconstancy of all worldly riches and grandeur.

Selah; on this word, :-.

b כסל למו "est fiducia ipsorum", Cocceius, Gejerus; "stolida fiducia vel spes", Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This their way is their folly - This might be rendered, “This is their way or course of life. It is their folly;” or, such is their folly. On the word “way,” see the notes at Psalms 1:6. The idea is, that it is folly for a man to cherish these hopes; to feel that wealth is of so much importance; to imagine that it can deliver from the grave; to suppose that he can perpetuate his own name, and secure his possessions in his own family upon the earth. And yet the world is still full of people as foolish as were those in the time of the psalmist; people who will not be admonished by the suggestions of reason, or by the experience of 6,000 years in the past. This is one thing in which the world makes no progress - in which it learns nothing from the experience of the past; and as the beaver under the influence of instinct builds his house and his home now in the same way that the first beaver did his, and as the brutes all act in the same manner from generation to generation, accumulating no knowledge, and making no advances from the experience of the past, so it is with people in their desire to grow rich. On other points the world accumulates knowledge, and profits from experience, garnering up the lessons taught by past experiment and observation, and thus becoming wiser in all other respects; but in regard to the desire of wealth, it makes no progress, gains no knowledge, derives no advantage, from the generations of fools that have lived and died in past ages. They now engage in the pursuit of gold with the same zeal, and the same expectation and hope which were evinced in the first ages of the world, and “as if” their own superior skill and wisdom could set at nought all the lessons taught by the past.

Yet their posterity - The coming generation is as confident and as foolish as the one that went before.

Approve their sayings - Margin, “delight in their mouth.” That is, they delight or take pleasure in what proceeds from their mouth; in what they say; in their views of things. They adopt “their” principles, and act on “their” maxims; and, attaching the same importance to wealth which “they” did, seek as “they” sought to perpetuate their names upon the earth.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 49:13. Their posterity approve their sayings. — Go the same way; adopt their maxims.