Psalm 49:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But man, with all his honor and pomp, does not remain; he is like the beasts that perish.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

People won’t live any longer because of wealth; they’re just like the animals that pass away.

Catholic Public Domain Version

If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

Psalm 49:12 Cross References

Genesis 4:17

And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths; And mine age is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah

Psalm 49:20

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

Psalm 82:7

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

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so, are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

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: