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Psalms 49:19

Psalms 49:19

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

He shall go to the generation of his fathers. In the Hebrew it is "thou shalt go," or "it (the soul) shall go;" but the meaning is well expressed by the Authorized Version. However much the wicked man delights in his life, and clings to it, nevertheless he has to die (), to join the "generations of his fathers," to go where they have gone before him.

And, once in Sheol (), they shall never see light. God will redeem the soul of the righteous from the power of Sheol (); but the rich ungodly man, and those to whom he goes—men of his sort—shall for evermore not see light.

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