Psalm 49:19
New International Version
they will join those who have gone before them, who will never again see the light of life.

New Living Translation
But they will die like all before them and never again see the light of day.

English Standard Version
his soul will go to the generation of his fathers, who will never again see light.

Berean Standard Bible
he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.

King James Bible
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

New King James Version
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see light.

New American Standard Bible
He will go to the generation of his fathers; They will never see the light.

NASB 1995
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They will never see the light.

NASB 1977
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light.

Legacy Standard Bible
But his soul shall go to the generation of his fathers; They will eternally not see light.

Amplified Bible
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never again see the light.

Christian Standard Bible
he will go to the generation of his ancestors; they will never see the light.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
he will go to the generation of his fathers; they will never see the light.

American Standard Version
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you will bring him to the generation of his fathers; he will not see light until eternity.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Yet he shall go in to the generation of his fathers; he shall never see light.

Contemporary English Version
But we each will go down to our ancestors, never again to see the light of day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.

English Revised Version
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see the light.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
he must join the generation of his ancestors, who will never see light [again].

Good News Translation
he will join all his ancestors in death, where the darkness lasts forever.

International Standard Version
you will end up like your ancestors' generation, never again to see the light of day!

JPS Tanakh 1917
It shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light.

Literal Standard Version
It comes to the generation of his fathers, | They do not see the light forever.

Majority Standard Bible
he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.

New American Bible
But he will join the company of his fathers, never again to see the light.

NET Bible
But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.

New Revised Standard Version
they will go to the company of their ancestors, who will never again see the light.

New Heart English Bible
he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

Webster's Bible Translation
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

World English Bible
he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

Young's Literal Translation
It cometh to the generation of his fathers, For ever they see not the light.

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Context
The Evanescence of Wealth
18Though in his lifetime he blesses his soul—and men praise you when you prosper— 19he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day. 20A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.…

Cross References
Genesis 15:15
You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.

Job 33:30
to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

Psalm 56:13
For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.


Treasury of Scripture

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

He.

Ecclesiastes 3:21
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Luke 12:20
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

to the generation

Genesis 15:15
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

1 Kings 16:6
So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.

never

Psalm 56:13
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

Job 33:30
To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

Matthew 8:12
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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(19) They shall never.--Better, who will never again look on the light, i.e., "never live again," implying, in contrast, a hope of a resurrection for the upright. (See Note Psalm 49:14.)

Verse 19. - 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 (ver. 10), to join the "generations of his fathers," to go where they have gone before him. And, once in Sheol (ver. 14), they shall never see light. God will redeem the soul of the righteous from the power of Sheol (ver. 15); but the rich ungodly man, and those to whom he goes - men of his sort - shall for evermore not see light.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
he will join
תָּ֭בוֹא (tā·ḇō·w)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

the generation
דּ֣וֹר (dō·wr)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1755: A revolution of time, an age, generation, a dwelling

of his fathers,
אֲבוֹתָ֑יו (’ă·ḇō·w·ṯāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1: Father

who will never
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

see
יִרְאוּ־ (yir·’ū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7200: To see

the light of day.
אֽוֹר׃ (’ō·wr)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 216: Illumination, luminary


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