Psalm 49:19 {48:20}
Good News Translation
he will join all his ancestors in death, where the darkness lasts forever.

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

He.

Ecclesiastes 3:21 Who knoweth if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?

Ecclesiastes 12:7 And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.

Luke 12:20 But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

Luke 16:22,23 And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell. . . .

to the generation

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

1 Kings 16:6 So Baasa slept with his fathers, and was buried in Thersa: and Ela, his son, reigned in his stead.

never

Psalm 56:13 Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from falling: that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the living.

Job 33:30 That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten them with the light of the living.

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

Matthew 22:13 Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion: wandering stars, to whom the storm of darkness is reserved for ever.

Context
The Evanescence of Wealth
18For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him. 19He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.20Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.…
Cross References
Genesis 15:15
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.

Job 33:30
That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten them with the light of the living.

Psalm 56:13
Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from falling: that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the living.

Psalm 49:18
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