Psalm 49:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁰ Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ A man who is held in honor and understands not is like the beasts that perish.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Wealthy people? They just don’t understand; they’re just like the animals that pass away.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother's son.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother's son:

Psalm 49:20 Cross References

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

Job 10:21

Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

Job 4:21

Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.

Psalm 49:12

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

Ecclesiastes 11:8

Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.