“This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.”
The observation that this is the way of the foolish and that those who approve of them similarly perish establishes the foolishness of the wealth-centered perspective. The reference to this way of the foolish suggests that the behaviors and beliefs critiqued constitute foolishness; spiritual blindness characterizes those who trust in wealth. The mention of those who approve of them suggests that support for the foolish perspective does not make it wise; agreement does not change truth. The statement about their subsequent perishing emphasizes that the foolish and their adherents ultimately face the same fate as all humanity. This verse suggests that endorsement of the fool's perspective does not protect one from fool's fate.
Church Fathers on Psalms 49:13
The First Part. 1. ...“Hear ye these things, all you nations” Psalm 48:1. Not then you only who are here. For of what power is our voice so to cry out, as that all nations may hear? For Our Lord Jesus Christ has proclaimed it through the Apostles, has proclaimed it in so many tongues that He sent; and we see this Psalm, which before was only repeated in one nation, in the Synagogue of the Jews, now repeated throughout the whole world, throughout all Churches; and that…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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