Psalms 49:13

This their way is their folly -This might be rendered, “This is their way or course of life. It is their folly;” or, such is their folly. On the word “way,” see the notes atPsalms 1:6. The idea is, that it is folly for a man to cherish these hopes; to feel that wealth is of so much importance; to imagine that it can deliver from the grave; to suppose that he can perpetuate his own name, and secure his possessions in his own family upon the earth. And yet the world is still full of people as foolish as were those in the time of the psalmist; people who will not be admonished by the suggestions of reason, or by the experience of 6,000 years in the past.