Psalms 49:10

Geneva Bible (1560)

For he seeth that wise men die, and also that the ignorant and foolish perish, & leaue their riches for 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 Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.
• Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said vnto him, O foole, this night wil they fetch away thy soule fro thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast prouided?
• Ps 94:8 : 8 Vnderstande ye vnwise among the people: and ye fooles, when will ye be wise?
• Ps 73:22 : 22 So foolish was I & ignorant: I was a beast before thee.
• Prov 30:2 : 2 Surely I am more foolish then any man, and haue not the vnderstanding of a man in me.
• Eccl 2:16-21 : 16 For there shalbe no remembrance of the wise, nor of the foole for euer: for that that now is, in the dayes to come shall all be forgotten; howe dyeth the wise man, as doeth the foole? 17 Therefore I hated life: for the worke that is wrought vnder the sunne is grieuous vnto me: for all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit. 18 I hated also all my labour, wherein I had trauailed vnder the sunne, which I shall leaue to the man that shalbe after me. 19 And who knoweth whether he shalbe wise or foolish? yet shall hee haue rule ouer all my labour, wherein I haue trauailed, and wherein I haue shewed my selfe wise vnder the sunne. This is also vanitie. 20 Therefore I went about to make mine heart abhorre all the labour, wherein I had trauailed vnder the sunne. 21 For there is a man whose trauaile is in wisdome, and in knowledge and in equitie: yet to a man that hath not trauailed herein, shal he giue his portion: this also is vanitie and a great griefe.
• Eccl 2:26 : 26 Surely to a man that is good in his sight, God giueth wisdome, and knowledge, and ioy: but to the sinner he giueth paine, to gather, and to heape to giue to him that is good before God: this is also vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.
• Eccl 5:13-16 : 13 (5:12) There is an euill sickenes that I haue seene vnder the sunne: to wit, riches reserued to the owners thereof for their euill. 14 (5:13) And these riches perish by euill trauel, and he begetteth a sonne, and in his hand is nothing. 15 (5:14) As hee came foorth of his mothers belly, he shall returne naked to goe as he came, and shal beare away nothing of his labour, which hee hath caused to passe by his hand. 16 (5:15) And this also is an euill sickenes that in all pointes as he came, so shall he goe, and what profit hath he that he hath traueiled for the winde?
• Eccl 9:1-2 : 1 I haue surely giuen mine heart to all this, and to declare all this, that the iust, and the wise, and their workes are in the hand of God: and no man knoweth eyther loue or hatred of all that is before them. 2 All things come alike to all: and the same condition is to the iust and to the wicked, to the good and to the pure, and to the polluted, and to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner, he that sweareth, as he that feareth an othe.
• Jer 10:8 : 8 But, altogether they dote, and are foolish: for the stocke is a doctrine of vanitie.
• Jer 17:11 : 11 As the partryche gathereth the yong, which she hath not brought forth: so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leaue them in the middes of his dayes, and at his ende shall bee a foole.
• Ps 92:6-7 : 6 An vnwise man knoweth it not, and a foole doeth not vnderstand this, 7 (When the wicked growe as the grasse, and all the workers of wickednesse doe flourish) that they shall be destroyed for euer.
• Ps 49:17 : 17 For he shall take nothing away when he dieth, neither shal his pompe descende after him.
• Prov 11:4 : 4 Riches auaile not in the day of wrath: but righteousnes deliuereth from death.
• Prov 12:1 : 1 He that loueth instruction, loueth knowledge: but he that hateth correction, is a foole.
• Ps 17:14 : 14 From men by thine hand, O Lorde, from men of the world, who haue their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thine hid treasure: their children haue ynough, and leaue the rest of their substance for their children.
• Rom 5:12-14 : 12 Wherefore, as by one man sinne entred into ye world, & death by sinne, and so death went ouer all men: in who all men haue sinned. 13 For vnto the time of the Law was sinne in the worlde, but sinne is not imputed, while there is no lawe. 14 But death reigned from Adam to Moses, euen ouer them also that sinned not after the like maner of that transgression of Adam, which was the figure of him that was to come.
• 1 Tim 6:6-9 : 6 But godlinesse is great gaine, if a man be content with that he hath. 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and it is certaine, that we can carie nothing out. 8 Therefore when wee haue foode and raiment, let vs therewith be content. 9 For they that will be rich, fall into tentation and snares, and into many foolish and noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition and destruction. 10 For the desire of money is the roote of all euill, which while some lusted after, they erred from the faith, and pearced themselues through with many sorowes.
• Heb 9:27 : 27 And as it is appointed vnto men that they shall once die, and after that commeth the iudgement: