Psalms 49:2
1 Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all inhabitants of the world,
both low and high, rich and poor alike.
3 My mouth will impart wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will bring understanding.
4 I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle with the harp:
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- both low and high, rich and poor alike.
- KJV
- Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
- WEB
- both low and high, rich and poor together.
- ASV
- Both low and high, Rich and poor together.
- DARBY
- Both men of low and men of high degree, rich and poor alike.
- BLB
- both sons of a man and sons of a [great] man, the rich and the poor together!
- ÅB
- både lave og høye, rike og fattige, alle tilsammen!
- OTB
- Enten av ydmyk eller adelig fødsel,
De rike og de fattige sammen. - B1930
- både lave og høie, rike og fattige, alle tilsammen!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 62:9
Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
Read in contextJames 2:1–7
My brothers, as you hold out your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, do not show favoritism.
Read in context1 Samuel 2:7–8
The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
Read in contextJob 34:19
who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.
Read in contextJeremiah 5:4–5
Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
Read in contextProverbs 22:2
The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.
Read in contextJames 1:9–11
The brother in humble circumstances should exult in his high position.
Read in contextRevelation 6:15–17
Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
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