Rich man

In psalms 49, it talks about rich man and why should we poor people not envy them. Reason number one is that we all die in the end and we cannot bring our wealth to the grave or the after life (for those of us who believe in that)

I can see the point of view. However if one were not to believe in the after life, one would want maximum pleasures from life here on earth.

And since what is sure is what we have now. It can be really hard for us not to be envious of those who are born with a silver spoon in their mouth.

Ok let's refocus for a while and try to extract the message that the Psalmist is trying to convey.

1. Envy is no good
2. All man both rich and poor have the same ending
3. What matters will be taught in the following Psalms
4. Riches are not security even here on earth, the richess can be taken away by catastrophe, unexpected events.
5. This is not to say that we should not work hard to gain riches. On the contrary one should be wise in managing money and good investmest is admirable. The truth is that we should not put our hopes in these material thing.