Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 49:15

"But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For he will receive me. Selah" — Psalms 49:15 (ASV)

But God will. —Better, But God shall redeem my life from the hand of sheol when it seizes me. Taken by itself, this statement might only imply that when just at the point of death, the Divine favour would draw him back and rescue him. But taken with the rendering given above to the previous verse, we must see here the dim foreshadowing of a better hope, that death did not altogether break the covenant bond between Jehovah and His people, a hope to which, through the later psalms and the book of Job, we see the Hebrew mind feeling its way. (and see Note to Psalms 6:5.)