Psalm 49:13

Bible in Basic English 1965

This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. Selah.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:19

Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.

Jeremiah 44:17

But we will certainly do every word which has gone out of our mouths, burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her as we did, we and our fathers and our kings and our rulers, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had food enough and did well and saw no evil.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs: