Psalms 49:10

American Standard Version (1901)

For he shall see it. Wise men die; The fool and the brutish alike perish, And leave their wealth to others.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וִֽיחִי־ע֥וֹד לָנֶ֑צַח לֹ֖א יִרְאֶ֣ה הַשָּֽׁחַת׃

Transliteration

wî-yəḥî-ʿôd lā-neṣaḥ not yirʾeh the-šāḥat

Grammar Details

• *wî*: conjunction with modal prefix - 'so that'
• *yəḥî*: verb qal jussive 3rd person masculine singular - 'he might live'
• *ʿôd*: adverb - 'still/yet/again'
• *lā*: preposition lamed - 'to/for'
• *neṣaḥ*: noun masculine singular - 'perpetuity/eternity'
• *yirʾeh*: verb qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - 'he would see'
• *šāḥat*: noun feminine singular with definite article - 'the pit/corruption'

Word Meanings

• *neṣaḥ*: perpetuity/eternity/forever
• *šāḥat*: pit/corruption/grave/destruction

Referenced Verses

• Ps 39:6 : 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
• Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?
• Ps 94:8 : 8 Consider, ye brutish among the people; And ye fools, when will ye be wise?
• Ps 73:22 : 22 So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was [as] a beast before thee.
• Prov 30:2 : 2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, And have not the understanding of a man;
• Eccl 2:16-21 : 16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool! 17 So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind. 18 And I hated all my labor wherein I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me. 19 And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. 20 Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun. 21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
• Eccl 2:26 : 26 For to the man that pleaseth him [God] giveth wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that pleaseth God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
• Eccl 5:13-16 : 13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt: 14 and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand. 15 As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand. 16 And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that he laboreth for the wind?
• Eccl 9:1-2 : 1 For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them. 2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not; as is the good, so is the sinner; [and] he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
• Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
• Jer 17:11 : 11 As the partridge that sitteth on [eggs] which she hath not laid, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
• Ps 92:6-7 : 6 A brutish man knoweth not; Neither doth a fool understand this: 7 When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.
• Ps 49:17 : 17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after him.
• Prov 11:4 : 4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath; But righteousness delivereth from death.
• Prov 12:1 : 1 Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; But he that hateth reproof is brutish.
• Ps 17:14 : 14 From men by thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, whose portion is in [this] life, And whose belly thou fillest with thy treasure: They are satisfied with children, And leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
• Rom 5:12-14 : 12 Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:-- 13 for until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a figure of him that was to come.
• 1 Tim 6:6-9 : 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain: 7 for we brought nothing into the world, for neither can we carry anything out; 8 but having food and covering we shall be therewith content. 9 But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
• Heb 9:27 : 27 And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this [cometh] judgment;