What does Psalm 49:19 mean?

This passage has noted that wealth and prestige are not enough to save a person from death, let alone the judgment of God (Psalm 49:10). When another rich person rises, seeming to defy God, it helps to remember they are no more invincible than those who came before (Psalm 49:16–17). Just like the wicked rich man's predecessors, who died, so will he.

When a person dies without God's truth, he will never see light again. His soul will live on, but in a dreadful place. He will spend eternity in hell, where he will suffer and be in torment. Jesus described hell as a place of outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 8:12). Because a person rejects Jesus, the Light of the World, he lives under divine judgment (John 3:16–18, 36). But when a follower of the Light of the World dies, he enters the presence of the Light of the World (2 Corinthians 5:8) and dwells forever in the dazzling glory of heaven. Revelation 22:5 declares that the future home of the redeemed will never experience night. "They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever."