Psalms 49:20

American Standard Version (1901)

Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish.

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  • Ps 49:12 : 12 But man [being] in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish.
  • Ps 73:18-19 : 18 Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction. 19 How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
  • Eccl 3:18-19 : 18 I said in my heart, [It is] because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are [but as] beasts. 19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.
  • Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
  • Job 4:21 : 21 Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.
  • Esth 5:11-14 : 11 And Haman recounted unto them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king. 12 Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to-morrow also am I invited by her together with the king. 13 Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate. 14 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

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    9That he should still live alway, That he should not see corruption.

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    6A brutish man knoweth not; Neither doth a fool understand this:

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    19He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light.

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    18I said in my heart, [It is] because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are [but as] beasts.

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    20All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

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