89:45 You have cut short his youth, 1
and have covered him with shame. (Selah)
89:48 No man can live on without experiencing death,
or deliver his life from the power of Sheol. 2 (Selah)
1 tn Heb “the days of his youth” (see as well Job 33:25).
2 tn Heb “Who [is] the man [who] can live and not see death, [who] can deliver his life from the hand of Sheol?” The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, “No one!”