Psalm 49:13 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹³ This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ This their way is their folly: Yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ 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)

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

Common English Bible

¹³ 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

¹³ Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats?

Psalm 49:13 Cross References

Luke 12:20

But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God: for it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

Jeremiah 44:17

But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity.