Psalms 49:13 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 49:13

This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

KJV

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ASV

This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings. [Selah

WEB

This is the fate of the self-confident and their followers who endorse their sayings. Selah

YLT

This their way is folly for them, And their posterity with their sayings are pleased. Selah.

DBT

This their way is their folly, yet they that come after them delight in their sayings. Selah.

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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6 verses on the floor

Luke 12:20
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Luke 16:27–28
Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house:
Luke 16:15
And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Jeremiah 44:17
But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

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Luke 11:47

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Note, The love of the world is a disease that runs in the blood; men have it by kind, till the grace of God cures it. To prove the folly of carnal worldlings he shows, 1. That with all their wealth they cannot save the life of the dearest friend they have in the world, nor purchase a reprieve for him when he is under the arrest of death (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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