Psalms 89:48

46 How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?

47 Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

49 Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David?

50 Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
KJV
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
WEB
What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
ASV
What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
DARBY
What man liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
BLB
What man can live and not see death? Can he deliver his soul from the hand of Sheol? Selah
ÅB
Hvem er den mann som lever og ikke ser døden, som frir sin sjel fra dødsrikets vold? Sela.
OTB
Hvilken mann kan leve og ikke se døden?
Kan han redde sin sjel fra dødsrikets makt?
Sela
B1930
Hvem er den mann som lever og ikke ser døden, som frir sin sjel fra dødsrikets vold? Sela.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Ecclesiastes 9:5

    For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.

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  • Psalms 49:15

    But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah

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  • Hebrews 11:5

    By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.

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  • Ecclesiastes 12:7

    before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

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  • Psalms 49:7–9

    No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.

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  • Ecclesiastes 8:8

    As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

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  • John 8:51

    Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps My word, he will never see death.”

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  • Job 30:23

    Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

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