Psalm 49:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Such is the fate of the foolhardy, the end of those who are pleased with their lot. Selah

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

This their way is their folly: Yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

This is the fate of those who are foolishly confident, yet after them men approve their sayings. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

That’s how it goes for those who are foolish, as well as for those who follow their lead, pleased with their talk. Selah

Catholic Public Domain Version

Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?

Psalm 49:13 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and humans have no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity.

Jeremiah 44:17

Instead, we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out libations to her, just as we and our ancestors, our kings and our officials, used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. We used to have plenty of food and prospered and saw no misfortune.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”