from men by your hand, LORD, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
Psalm 49:10 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For he seeth that wise men die, Likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For he sees that even wise men die; the [self-confident] fool and the stupid alike perish and leave their wealth to others. American Standard Version (1901) For he shall see it. Wise men die; The fool and the brutish alike perish, And leave their wealth to others. Common English Bible Everyone knows that the wise die too, just like foolish and stupid people do, all of them leaving their fortunes to others. Catholic Public Domain Version For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen. |
from men by your hand, LORD, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
*Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.
Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?
Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
Riches don't profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.
*Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don't have a man's understanding.
For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
*But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,