Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 49:11

11. Their inward thought is , that their houses shall continue for ever , and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names .

Though they are ashamed to express it, yet it is their secret Opinion and Hope, and Wish.

Either, 1. Their posterity, oft called mens Houses, as 2 Sam. 7. 11. &c. Psal. 113. 9. and 115. 12. Or, 2. Their Mansion-Houses, as it is explained in the next Clause, which also serve for this purpose, to preserve a Mans name for ever.

Not to them in their own Persons, but to them and theirs in succeeding Generations, as it follows.

Fondly dreaming by this means to immortalize their Names and Memories.

Marginal references: Heb. to Generation and Generation.