Psalm 49:12 - The Scriptures 2009

¹² But man does not remain in esteem, He is like the beasts that perish.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² But man, with all his honor and pomp, does not remain; he is like the beasts that perish.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² But man being in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish.

Common English Bible

¹² People won’t live any longer because of wealth; they’re just like the animals that pass away.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.

Psalm 49:12 Cross References

Genesis 4:17

And Qayin knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Ḥanoḵ. And he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Ḥanoḵ.

Psalm 39:5

See, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime is as non-existence before You; Only, all men standing, are all breath. Selah.”

Psalm 49:20

Man, who is rich, Yet does not understand, Shall be like the beasts, They shall perish.

Psalm 82:7

But as men you die, And fall as one of the heads.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For even man does not know his time. Like fish taken in an evil net, and like birds caught in a snare, so the sons of men are snared in an evil time, when it comes down on them suddenly.

1 Peter 1:24

because “All flesh is as grass, and all the esteem of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,