Psalms 49:16
Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
KJV
Peccatori autem dixit Deus : Quare tu enarras justitias meas ? et assumis testamentum meum per os tuum ?
Vulgate
τῷ δὲ ἁμαρτωλῷ εἶπεν ὁ θεός Ἵνα τί σὺ διηγῇ τὰ δικαιώματά μου, καὶ ἀναλαμβάνεις τὴν διαθήκην μου διὰ στόματός σου;
LXX
Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, When the glory of his house is increased:
ASV
אַךְ אֱלֹהִ֗ים יִפְדֶּ֣ה נַ֭פְשִׁ/י מִֽ/יַּד שְׁא֑וֹל כִּ֖י יִקָּחֵ֣/נִי סֶֽלָה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אַךְ
'k
adverb · 158×
וֹ
v
noun · 1620×
י
y
noun · 752×
יִּקַּ֣ח
yqch
verb · 963×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
ם
m
verb · 57×
סֶֽלָה
slh
particle · 71×
שְׁא֣וֹל
sh'vl
verb · 66×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. An awful thing is death, and very full of terror, but not to those who have learned the true wisdom which is above. For he that knows nothing certain concerning things to come, but deems it to be a certain dissolution and end of life, with reason shudders and is afraid, as though he were passing into non-existence. But we who, by the grace of God, have learned the hidden and…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210206.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
2. Afterwards indicating that not in the teachers but in themselves they ought to have their hopes of salvation, he says, 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith. Not in the wisdom which is without: for there it is not possible to stand, but to be borne along; even as in the faith ye may stand. Quit you like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love. …
Cross-references
- Gen 31:1 — And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this glory.
- Jer 9:23 — Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
- Luke 6:24 — But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
- Luke 16:22 — And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
- Matt 4:8 — Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
- Ps 37:1 — Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
- Ps 37:7 — Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
- Rev 21:24 — And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
- Rev 21:26 — And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.