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Psalms 49:12

Psalms chapter 49 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

But man being in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

But man being in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish.

Context

v.11Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, Andtheir dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names.

v.12This passage

v.13This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings. [Selah

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 39:5

    Behold, thou hast made my daysas handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah

  • Psalms 49:20

    Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish.

  • Ecclesiastes 3:18

    I said in my heart, It isbecause of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.

  • James 1:10

    and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

  • 1 Peter 1:24

    For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

  • Psalms 82:7

    Nevertheless ye shall die like men, And fall like one of the princes.