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Psalms 49:20

Money and wealthWisdomDeath and loss

18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
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BSB
A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
KJV
Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
WEB
A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.
ASV
Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish. Psalm 50 A Psalm of Asaph.
DARBY
Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
BLB
A man in [his] splendor does not understand; he is like the beasts that perish!
ÅB
Et menneske i herlighet, som ikke har forstand, er lik dyrene, som går til grunne.
OTB
Mennesket, i sin prakt, men uten forståelse,
Er som dyrene som omkommer.
B1930
Et menneske i herlighet, som ikke har forstand, er lik dyrene, som går til grunne.

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  • Ecclesiastes 3:18–19

    I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

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  • Psalms 49:12

    Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

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  • Job 4:21

    Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

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  • Esther 7:10

    So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.

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  • Esther 5:11–14

    And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

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  • Psalms 73:18–19

    Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

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