Psalm 49:12

The Passion Translation

The honor of man is short-lived and fleeting. There’s little difference between man and beast, for both will one day perish.

Cross References

Genesis 4:17

Cain slept with his wife and she conceived and bore Enoch. Cain was building a city at the time, so he named it the Village of Enoch, after his son.

Psalm 39:5

What a brief time you’ve given me to live! Compared to you my lifetime is nothing at all! Nothing more than a puff of air—I’m gone so swiftly. So too are the grandest of men; they are nothing but a fleeting shadow!” Pause in his presence

Psalm 49:20

So this is the way of mortal man— honored for a moment, yet without eternal insight, like a beast that will one day perish.

Psalm 82:7

Nevertheless, in death you are nothing but mere men! You will be laid in the ground like any prince and you will die.”

1 Peter 1:24

Human beings are frail and temporary, like grass, and the glory of man fleeting like blossoms of the field. The grass dries and withers and the flowers fall off,