John Trapp on Psalms 49:13

Verſ. 13. This their way is their folly] This their fond conceit of an immortality is an egregious folly, fully confuted by every days experience; for the longeſt liver dieds at laſt, as did (beſide the Antediluvian Patriarches) Jounnes de Temporibus, Armour-bearer to Charls the Great, who dyed Anno Dom. Aſteds Chronol. 475. Naucler. Purchas, Pil[illegible: 2 letters] p. 481. 1139 aged three hundred ſixty one years. So the old man of Bengala in the Eaſt-Indies, who was three hundred thirty five years old when he came to the Portugals, from whom for his miraculous age, he received a yearly ſtipend till he dyed. He that lived in our days till one hundred and fifty years, or thereabouts, yeelded at length to Nature; and yet men doat and dream ſtill of an immortality. The firſt doom that ever was denounced was Death, Thou ſhalt ſurely dye; and the firſt doubt that ever was made was concerning Death, ye ſhall not ſurely dye; ever ſince which time there is ſomething of the ſpawn of that old Serpent left in our natures, prompting us to doubt of that whereof there is the greateſt certainty; and although every man granteth that he ſhall dye, yet there is ſcarſe any man that futureth not his death, and thinketh that he may live yet, and yet, and ſo long: this is folly in an high degree, and we ſhould be ſenſible of it, labouring to become neither fond of Life, nor afraid of Death.

Yet their poſterity approve their ſayings, Selah] Heb. Delight in their mouth, are as wiſe as their Anceſtors, tread in their tract, take up their inward thoughts, ver. 11. obſerve the ſame lying vanities, and ſo forſake their own Mercies, Jon. 2.8. Selah, q.d. O wonderful, for, ſee the iſſue of their folly.