Psalms 49:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

None of them can. — Brother is here used in the wide sense of Leviticus 19:17; Genesis 13:11 (where rendered “the one”). The sense is the same whether we make it nominative or accusative. Death is the debt which all owe, and which each must pay for himself. No wealth can buy a man off. God, in whose hand are the issues of life and death, is not to be bribed; nor, as the next verse says, even if the arrangement were possible, would any wealth be sufficient.