John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 49:9
That he should still live for ever ,.... Or "though he should live", &c.; F23 ויהי "etiamsi vivat", Gejerus. . Though the rich man should live ever so long, a thousand years twice told, as in Ecclesiastes 6:6 ; yet he could not in all this time, with all his riches, redeem his brother; and at last must die himself, and so must his brother too, as his own experience and observation may assure him, Psalm 49:10 . Or the meaning is, he cannot so redeem his brother, or give to God... 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