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Gill's Exposition
That he should still live for ever,.... Or "though he should live", &c. (w). Though the rich man should live ever so long, a thousand years twice told, as in Ecc 6:6; yet he could not in all this…
Barnes' Notes
That he should still live for ever - That his brother whom he could not redeem - or that he himself - should not die, Psa 49:8. The idea is, that the price of life is so great that no wealth can…
In these verses we have,
I. A description of the spirit and way of worldly people, whose portion is in this life, Psa 17:14. It is taken for granted that they have wealth, and a multitude of riches…
Cambridge Bible
The preceding verse is a parenthesis, and this verse is to be connected with Psa 49:49 and rendered,
That he should live on perpetually,
(And) should not see the pit.
-To see the pit" = to…
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