Psalms 49:13 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 49:13

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

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

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Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 2 (1870)

Their vain confidences are not casual aberrations from the path of wisdom, but their way, their usual and regular course; their whole life is regulated by such principles. Their life path is essential folly. They are fools ingrain. From first to last brutishness is their characteristic, grovelling stupidity the leading trait of their conduct. Yet their posterity approve their sayings. Those who follow them in descent follow them in folly, quote their worldly maxims, and accept their mad career as the most prudent mode of life. Why do they not see by their father's failure their father's folly?

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
זֶ֣ה	zeh	this	H2088 →
דַ֭רְכָּם	Dar.kom	[is] way their	H1870 →
כֵּ֣סֶל	Ke.sel	stupidity	H3689 →
לָ֑מוֹ	la.mo	[belongs] to them
וְאַחֲרֵיהֶ֓ם׀	ve.'a.cha.rei.Hem	and after them	H310 →
בְּפִיהֶ֖ם	be.fi.Hem	in mouth their	H6310 →
יִרְצ֣וּ	yir.Tzu	they take delight	H7521 →
סֶֽלָה׃	Se.lah	Selah	H5542 →

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Through
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
leads to
- Job 5:13
  He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.
- Psalms 141:10
  Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
- 1 Corinthians 1:19–20
  For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
- Romans 1:21–22
  For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
- Isaiah 44:25
  who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,
Through
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
leads to
- Job 27:8
  For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
- Jeremiah 17:11
  Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will…
- 1 Timothy 6:7
  For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.

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Where the connections lead

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