Psalms 49 Footnotes

Ps 49 Wisdom psalms often probe the inequities of life. Here the Korahite psalmist wrote of the man who lives for all the pomp and glory this life offers, but dies like everyone else.

49:14 The psalmist used irony and personification to say that death will feed on the wicked in Sheol. Death leads the sheep to slaughter. In contrast, the upright will triumph “in the morning,” after the night of suffering.