Jubilee2000 - Psalms - 49

49:1  <> Hear this, all [ye] people; give ear, all [ye] inhabitants of the world:

49:2  Both low and high, rich and poor, together.

49:3  My mouth shall speak wisdom; and the meditation of my heart intelligence.

49:4  I will incline mine ear to a parable; I will declare my enigma upon the harp.

49:5  Why should I fear in the days of adversity [when] the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

49:6  Those that trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

49:7  none [of them] can by any means ransom his brother, nor give God an atonement for him;

49:8  (for the redemption of their soul [is] of great price, and they shall never pay [it])

49:9  that he should still live for ever [and] not see corruption.

49:10  For he sees [that] all the wise men die, likewise the fool and the ignorant perish and leave their wealth to others.

49:11  Their inward thought [is] [that] their houses are eternal [and] their dwelling places to all generations; they call [their] lands after their own names.

49:12  Nevertheless man will not abide [forever] in honour; he is like the beasts [that] are cut off.

49:13  This their way [is] their folly; yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

49:14  Like sheep they are laid in Sheol; death shall feed on them, and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, and their beauty shall be consumed in the grave from their dwelling.

49:15  Surely God will ransom my soul from the hand of Sheol when he shall take me. Selah.

49:16  Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;

49:17  for in his death he shall carry nothing away; nor shall his glory descend after him.

49:18  Though while he lives, his life shall be blessed: and [men] will praise thee when thou art prosperous.

49:19  He shall enter into the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light forever.

49:20  Man [that is] in honour that does not understand is like the beasts [that] are cut off.: