John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 49:7
None of them can by any means redeem his brother ,.... That is, "with their substance", or "riches", as the Targum and Jarchi supply. Some, according to the order of the words in the original, render them, "a brother redeeming cannot redeem a man", or "anyone" F17 So Cocceius; and some in Michaelis. : but, as Aben Ezra observes, אח , "a brother", is the effect, and איש , "a man", is the cause. The Targum is, "his brother that is a captive, a man redeeming cannot redeem with his... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 49:6-14
In these verses we have, I. A description of the spirit and way of worldly people, whose portion is in this life, Ps. 17:14. It is taken for granted that they have wealth, and a multitude of riches (Ps. 49:6), houses and lands of inheritance, which they call their own, Ps. 49:11. God often gives abundance of the good things of this world to bad men who live in contempt of him and rebellion against him, by which it appears that they are not the best things in themselves (for then God would give... read more