Psalms 49:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others.

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  • Ps 39:6 : 6 Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.
  • Luke 12:20 : 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?
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?
  • Ps 73:22 : 22 As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.
  • Prov 30:2 : 2 For I am more like a beast than any man, I have no power of reasoning like a man:
  • Eccl 2:16-21 : 16 Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish! 17 So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind. 18 Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits. 19 And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose. 20 So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun. 21 Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.
  • Eccl 2:26 : 26 To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
  • Eccl 5:13-16 : 13 And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand. 14 As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand. 15 And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind? 16 All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.
  • Eccl 9:1-2 : 1 All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them. 2 Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.
  • Ps 92:6-7 : 6 A man without sense has no knowledge of this; and a foolish man may not take it in. 7 When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.
  • Ps 49:17 : 17 For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.
  • Prov 11:4 : 4 Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.
  • Prov 12:1 : 1 A lover of training is a lover of knowledge; but a hater of teaching is like a beast.
  • Ps 17:14 : 14 With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.
  • Rom 5:12-14 : 12 For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil: 13 Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken. 14 But still death had power from Adam till Moses, even over those who had not done wrong like Adam, who is a picture of him who was to come.
  • 1 Tim 6:6-9 : 6 But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit: 7 For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out; 8 But if we have food and a roof over us, let that be enough. 9 But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

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    14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.

    15 Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.

    16 Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

  • Ps 49:11-13
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    11 The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.

    12 But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

    13 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.)

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    9 So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.

  • Eccl 6:8
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    8 What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?

  • Ps 49:19-20
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    19 He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

    20 Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

  • Ps 49:17
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    17 For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

  • Eccl 2:19
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    19 And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.

  • Job 4:21
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    21 If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

  • Eccl 10:2-3
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    2 The heart of the wise man goes in the right direction; but the heart of a foolish man in the wrong.

    3 And when the foolish man is walking in the way, he has no sense and lets everyone see that he is foolish.

  • Eccl 8:10
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    10 And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.

  • Ps 92:6
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    6 A man without sense has no knowledge of this; and a foolish man may not take it in.

  • Eccl 3:18-19
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    18 I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.

    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.

  • Ps 94:8
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    8 Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

  • Eccl 10:14-15
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    14 The foolish are full of words; man has no knowledge of what will be; and who is able to say what will be after him?

    15 The work of the foolish will be a weariness to him, because he has no knowledge of the way to the town.

  • Prov 17:24
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    24 Wisdom is before the face of him who has sense; but the eyes of the foolish are on the ends of the earth.

  • Prov 14:24
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    24 Their wisdom is a crown to the wise, but their foolish behaviour is round the head of the unwise.

  • Prov 14:33
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    33 Wisdom has her resting-place in the mind of the wise, but she is not seen among the foolish.

  • Eccl 9:5
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    5 The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6 Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

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    21 Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.

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    19 He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.

  • Eccl 7:15
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    15 These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.

  • Prov 10:23
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    23 It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.

  • 1 Cor 3:19-20
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    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:

    20 And again, The Lord has knowledge of the reasonings of the wise, that they are nothing.

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    11 For in his eyes men are as nothing; he sees evil and takes note of it.

  • Job 21:13
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    13 Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

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    4 Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

  • Eccl 7:4
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    4 The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.

  • Job 12:2
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    2 No doubt you have knowledge, and wisdom will come to an end with you.

  • Eccl 5:14
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    14 As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.

  • Prov 3:35
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    35 The wise will have glory for their heritage, but shame will be the reward of the foolish.

  • Prov 5:23
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    23 He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3 This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.

  • Prov 28:11
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    11 The man of wealth seems to himself to be wise, but the poor man who has sense has a low opinion of him.

  • Job 32:9
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    9 It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right.

  • Prov 11:29
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    29 The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.

  • Eccl 6:6
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    6 And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?

  • Prov 10:14
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    14 Knowledge is stored up by the wise, but the mouth of the foolish man is a destruction which is near.

  • Eccl 9:16
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    16 Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength, but the poor man's wisdom is not respected, and his words are not given a hearing.

  • Prov 14:8
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    8 The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

  • Eccl 9:13
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    13 This again I have seen under the sun as wisdom and it seemed great to me.