Psalms 82:7

“But ye shall die like men, etc.] As men in common do, to whom it is appointed to die, (<580927>Hebrews 9:27) or as common men, as men in the lowest class of life: the wise man dies as the fool, the king as the peasant, high as the low, rich as the poor; death levels and makes all alike: or as Adam, as the first man, so Jarchi, who was lord of the whole universe; but being in honour, abode not, but became like the beasts that perish; sinning he died, and so all his posterity, even those who have the greatest power and authority on earth; (see <194902>Psalm 49:2,10,12) and not only die a corporeal death, but an eternal one, dying in their sins; as Christ threatened the Jewish rulers, Scribes,…”

“But ye shall die like men - You are mortal, like other people. This fact you have forgotten. You have been lifted up with pride, as if you were in fact more exalted than other people; as if you were not subject to the law which consigns all people to the grave. An ancient monarch directed his servant to address him each morning in this language: “Remember, sire, that thou art mortal.” No more salutary truth can be impressed on the minds of the rich and the great than that they are, in this respect, like other people - like the poorest, the meanest of the race: that they will die under similar forms of disease; that they will experience the same pain; that all which is fearful in death will…”

“Like men - Or, like ordinary men. Psalms 82:8”

“But: Psa 49:12; Job 21:32; Eze 31:14 like men: Or, "like Adam," keadam. and fall: etc. Or, "as fall as one of them, O ye princes." Psa 83:11 Psalms 82:8”