Psalms 49:9

Bible in Basic English

So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
so that he may live foreverand not see the Pit.

Hebrew Names Version
That he should live on forever, That he should not see corruption.

King James Version
That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.

English Standard Version
that he should live on forever and never see the pit.

New Century Version
Do people live forever? Don't they all face death?

New English Translation
so that he might continue to live forever and not experience death.

Amplified Bible
So that he should live on eternally, That he should never see the pit (grave) and undergo decay.

New American Standard Bible
That he might live on eternally, That he might not undergo decay.

World English Bible
That he should live on forever, That he should not see corruption.

Geneva Bible (1587)
That he may liue still for euer, and not see the graue.

Legacy Standard Bible
That he should live on eternally,That he should not see corruption.

Berean Standard Bible
that he should live on forever and not see decay.

Contemporary English Version
to stay alive forever and safe from death.

Complete Jewish Bible
because the price for him is too high (leave the idea completely alone!)

Darby Translation
That he should still live perpetually, [and] not see corruption.

Easy-to-Read Version
You will never have enough to buy the right to live forever and keep your body out of the grave.

George Lamsa Translation
Do good for ever and you shall live for ever, and not see corruption.

Good News Translation
to keep us from the grave, to let us live forever.

Lexham English Bible
so that he may stay alive forever and not see the pit.

Literal Translation
for he shall yet live forever; he shall never see corruption.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yee though he lyue loge, & se not ye graue.

American Standard Version
That he should still live alway, That he should not see corruption.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For too costly is the redemption of their soul, and must be let alone for ever--

King James Version (1611)
That he should still liue for euer, and not see corruption.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
yea though he lyue long and see not the graue.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and live to the end, so that he should not see corruption.

English Revised Version
That he should still live alway, that he should not see corruption.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he schal lyue yit in to the ende.

Update Bible Version
That he should still live always, That he should not see corruption.

Webster's Bible Translation
That he should still live for ever, [and] not see corruption.

New King James Version
That he should continue to live eternally, And not see the Pit.

New Living Translation
to live forever and never see the grave.

New Life Bible
to live forever and not see the grave.

New Revised Standard
that one should live on forever and never see the grave.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
That he should, yet, live on, continually, Should not see corruption.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(48-10) And shall still live unto the end.

Revised Standard Version
that he should continue to live on for ever, and never see the Pit.

Young's Literal Translation
And still he liveth for ever, He seeth not the pit.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
That he should live on eternally, That he should not undergo decay.

Contextual Overview

⁶ Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores. ⁷ Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself; ⁸ (Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.) ⁹ So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld. ¹⁰ For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others. ¹¹ The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands. ¹² But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts. ¹³ This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.) ¹⁴ Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

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
See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put to death.

Numbers 24:9
He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed.

Ezekiel 19:5
Now when she saw that her hope was made foolish and gone, she took another of her little ones and made him into a young lion.

Hosea 5:4
Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.

Hosea 5:14
For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.

Micah 5:8
And the rest of Jacob will be among the nations, in the middle of the mass of peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the woods, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep: if he goes through, they will be crushed under foot and pulled to bits, and there will be no saviour.

1 Corinthians 15:24
Then comes the end, when he will give up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have put an end to all rule and to all authority and power.

Revelation 5:5
And one of the rulers said to me, Do not be sad: see, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome, and has power to undo the book and its seven stamps.

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.