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.
Read in contextPsalms 49:15
But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah
Read in contextHebrews 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.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 12:7
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Read in contextPsalms 49:7–9
No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 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.
Read in contextJohn 8:51
Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps My word, he will never see death.”
Read in contextJob 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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