Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
soul--or, "self." This use of "soul" for the person is frequent (Genesis 12:5; Genesis 46:26; Psalms 3:2; Psalms 7:2; Psalms 11:1), even when the body may be the part chiefly affected, as in Psalms 35:13; Psalms 105:18. Some cases are cited, as Leviticus 22:4; Numbers 6:6; Numbers 9:6, Numbers 9:10; Numbers 19:13; Haggai 2:13, etc., which seem to justify assigning the meaning of body, or dead body; but it will be found that the latter sense is given by some adjunct expressed or implied. In those cases person is the proper sense.
wilt not leave . . . hell--abandon to the power of (Job 39:14; Psalms 49:10). Hell as (Genesis 42:38; Psalms 6:5; Jonah 2:2) the state or region of death, and so frequently--or the grave itself (Job 14:13; Job 17:13; Ecclesiastes 9:10, etc.). So the Greek Hades (compare Acts 2:27, Acts 2:31). The context alone can settle whether the state mentioned is one of suffering and place of the damned (compare Psalms 9:17; Proverbs 5:5; Proverbs 7:27).
wilt . . . suffer--literally, "give" or "appoint."
Holy One-- (Psalms 4:3), one who is the object of God's favor, and so a recipient of divine grace which he exhibits--pious.
to see--or, "experience"--undergo (Luke 2:26).
corruption--Some render the word, the pit, which is possible, but for the obvious sense which the apostle's exposition (Acts 2:27; Acts 13:36-37) gives. The sense of the whole passage is clearly this: by the use of flesh and soul, the disembodied state produced by death is indicated; but, on the other hand, no more than the state of death is intended; for the last clause of Psalms 16:10 is strictly parallel with the first, and Holy One corresponds to soul, and corruption to hell. As Holy One, or David (Acts 13:36-37), which denotes the person, including soul and body, is used for body, of which only corruption can be predicated (compare Acts 2:31); so, on the contrary, soul, which literally means the immaterial part, is used for the person. The language may be thus paraphrased, "In death I shall hope for resurrection; for I shall not be left under its dominion and within its bounds, or be subject to the corruption which ordinarily ensues."
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Psalms 16:1
Psalms 16:1
Psalms 16:9
Psalms 16:10
Psalms 18:5
Psalms 22:20
Psalms 30:3
Psalms 63:1
Psalms 88:3
Psalms 103:4
Psalms 105:18
Psalms 116:5-8
Proverbs 15:11
Mark 1:24
Acts 13:34-37
Hebrews 7:26
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