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诗篇 49:9

使他永遠活著,不見朽壞。

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

Chinese Union (Simplified)
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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

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
The people rise up like a lioness; they get up like a lion. Lions don't rest until they have eaten, until they have drunk their enemies' blood."
Numbers 24:9
Like a lion, they lie waiting to attack; like a lioness, no one would be brave enough to wake them. Anyone who blesses you will be blessed, and anyone who curses you will be cursed."
Ezekiel 19:5
"‘The mother lion waited and saw that there was no hope for her cub. So she took another one of her cubs and made him a strong lion.
Hosea 5:4
"They will not give up their deeds and return to their God. They are determined to be unfaithful to me; they do not know the Lord .
Hosea 5:14
I will be like a lion to Israel, like a young lion to Judah. I will attack them and tear them to pieces. I will drag them off, and no one will be able to save them.
Micah 5:8
Those of Jacob's people who are left alive will be scattered among many nations and peoples. They will be like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion in a flock of sheep: As it goes, it jumps on them and tears them to pieces, and no one can save them.
1 Corinthians 15:24
and then the end will come. At that time Christ will destroy all rulers, authorities, and powers, and he will hand over the kingdom to God the Father.
Revelation 5:5
But one of the elders said to me, "Do not cry! The Lion from the tribe of Judah, David's descendant, has won the victory so that he is able 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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