Psalm 49:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Mortals cannot abide in their pomp; they are like the animals that perish.

Cross References

Genesis 4:17

Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch, and he built a city and named it Enoch after his son Enoch.

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight. Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah

Psalm 49:20

Mortals cannot abide in their pomp; they are like the animals that perish.

Psalm 82:7

nevertheless, you shall die like mortals and fall like any prince.”

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For no one can anticipate one’s time. Like fish taken in a cruel net or like birds caught in a snare, so mortals are snared at a time of calamity, when it suddenly falls upon them.

1 Peter 1:24

For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,