Psalm 49:12

Translations

Modern

But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.

Traditional

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

Literal

And man in his wealth does not remain; he becomes like the beasts that perish.

Latin

Et homo, cum in honore esset, non intellexit. Comparatus est jumentis insipientibus, et similis factus est illis.

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English

But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.

Notes

Psalms 49:11–12

The teacher uses irony to teach wisdom. Everyone dies, and even those who give their names to lands or estates will be forgotten.

Psalms 49:1–20

In this wisdom psalm, a wise teacher warns about enemies who live richly and care only for themselves (Psalm 49:5–9). They cannot save anyone, not even themselves, from death or being forgotten (Psalm 49:10–12). Like fattened animals, they are led to slaughter (Psalm 49:14–20).

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Trusting God in the Psalms Wisdom Psalms

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Ecclesiastes 3:18–21
I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.”
Psalm 49:20
A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
Psalm 39:5
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
Psalm 82:7
But like mortals you will die, and like rulers you will fall.”
Ecclesiastes 9:12
For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
James 1:10–11
But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
1 Peter 1:24
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

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