Psalms 49:10

Geneva Bible (1560)

For he seeth that wise men die, and also that the ignorant and foolish perish, & leaue their riches for others.

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  • Ps 39:6 : 6 Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said vnto him, O foole, this night wil they fetch away thy soule fro thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast prouided?
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Vnderstande ye vnwise among the people: and ye fooles, when will ye be wise?
  • Ps 73:22 : 22 So foolish was I & ignorant: I was a beast before thee.
  • Prov 30:2 : 2 Surely I am more foolish then any man, and haue not the vnderstanding of a man in me.
  • Eccl 2:16-21 : 16 For there shalbe no remembrance of the wise, nor of the foole for euer: for that that now is, in the dayes to come shall all be forgotten; howe dyeth the wise man, as doeth the foole? 17 Therefore I hated life: for the worke that is wrought vnder the sunne is grieuous vnto me: for all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit. 18 I hated also all my labour, wherein I had trauailed vnder the sunne, which I shall leaue to the man that shalbe after me. 19 And who knoweth whether he shalbe wise or foolish? yet shall hee haue rule ouer all my labour, wherein I haue trauailed, and wherein I haue shewed my selfe wise vnder the sunne. This is also vanitie. 20 Therefore I went about to make mine heart abhorre all the labour, wherein I had trauailed vnder the sunne. 21 For there is a man whose trauaile is in wisdome, and in knowledge and in equitie: yet to a man that hath not trauailed herein, shal he giue his portion: this also is vanitie and a great griefe.
  • Eccl 2:26 : 26 Surely to a man that is good in his sight, God giueth wisdome, and knowledge, and ioy: but to the sinner he giueth paine, to gather, and to heape to giue to him that is good before God: this is also vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.
  • Eccl 5:13-16 : 13 (5:12) There is an euill sickenes that I haue seene vnder the sunne: to wit, riches reserued to the owners thereof for their euill. 14 (5:13) And these riches perish by euill trauel, and he begetteth a sonne, and in his hand is nothing. 15 (5:14) As hee came foorth of his mothers belly, he shall returne naked to goe as he came, and shal beare away nothing of his labour, which hee hath caused to passe by his hand. 16 (5:15) And this also is an euill sickenes that in all pointes as he came, so shall he goe, and what profit hath he that he hath traueiled for the winde?
  • Eccl 9:1-2 : 1 I haue surely giuen mine heart to all this, and to declare all this, that the iust, and the wise, and their workes are in the hand of God: and no man knoweth eyther loue or hatred of all that is before them. 2 All things come alike to all: and the same condition is to the iust and to the wicked, to the good and to the pure, and to the polluted, and to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner, he that sweareth, as he that feareth an othe.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 But, altogether they dote, and are foolish: for the stocke is a doctrine of vanitie.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 As the partryche gathereth the yong, which she hath not brought forth: so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leaue them in the middes of his dayes, and at his ende shall bee a foole.
  • Ps 92:6-7 : 6 An vnwise man knoweth it not, and a foole doeth not vnderstand this, 7 (When the wicked growe as the grasse, and all the workers of wickednesse doe flourish) that they shall be destroyed for euer.
  • Ps 49:17 : 17 For he shall take nothing away when he dieth, neither shal his pompe descende after him.
  • Prov 11:4 : 4 Riches auaile not in the day of wrath: but righteousnes deliuereth from death.
  • Prov 12:1 : 1 He that loueth instruction, loueth knowledge: but he that hateth correction, is a foole.
  • Ps 17:14 : 14 From men by thine hand, O Lorde, from men of the world, who haue their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thine hid treasure: their children haue ynough, and leaue the rest of their substance for their children.
  • Rom 5:12-14 : 12 Wherefore, as by one man sinne entred into ye world, & death by sinne, and so death went ouer all men: in who all men haue sinned. 13 For vnto the time of the Law was sinne in the worlde, but sinne is not imputed, while there is no lawe. 14 But death reigned from Adam to Moses, euen ouer them also that sinned not after the like maner of that transgression of Adam, which was the figure of him that was to come.
  • 1 Tim 6:6-9 : 6 But godlinesse is great gaine, if a man be content with that he hath. 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and it is certaine, that we can carie nothing out. 8 Therefore when wee haue foode and raiment, let vs therewith be content. 9 For they that will be rich, fall into tentation and snares, and into many foolish and noysome lustes, which drowne men in perdition and destruction. 10 For the desire of money is the roote of all euill, which while some lusted after, they erred from the faith, and pearced themselues through with many sorowes.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And as it is appointed vnto men that they shall once die, and after that commeth the iudgement:

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  • Eccl 2:14-16
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    14For the wise mans eyes are in his head, but the foole walketh in darknes: yet I know also that the same condition falleth to them all.

    15Then I thought in mine heart, It befalleth vnto me, as it befalleth to ye foole. Why therefore doe I then labour to be more wise? And I sayd in mine heart, that this also is vanitie.

    16For there shalbe no remembrance of the wise, nor of the foole for euer: for that that now is, in the dayes to come shall all be forgotten; howe dyeth the wise man, as doeth the foole?

  • Ps 49:11-13
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    11Yet they thinke, their houses, and their habitations shall continue for euer, euen from generation to generation, and call their lands by their names.

    12But man shall not continue in honour: he is like the beastes that die.

    13This their way vttereth their foolishnes: yet their posteritie delite in their talke. Selah.

  • Ps 49:9
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    9That he may liue still for euer, and not see the graue.

  • Eccl 6:8
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    8For what hath the wise man more then the foole? what hath the poore that knoweth how to walke before the liuing?

  • Ps 49:19-20
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    19He shal enter into the generation of his fathers, and they shall not liue for euer.

    20Man is in honour, and vnderstandeth not: he is like to beasts that perish.

  • Ps 49:17
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    17For he shall take nothing away when he dieth, neither shal his pompe descende after him.

  • Eccl 2:19
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    19And who knoweth whether he shalbe wise or foolish? yet shall hee haue rule ouer all my labour, wherein I haue trauailed, and wherein I haue shewed my selfe wise vnder the sunne. This is also vanitie.

  • Job 4:21
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    21Doeth not their dignitie goe away with them? do they not die, & that without wisdom?

  • Eccl 10:2-3
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    2The heart of a wise man is at his right hand: but the heart of a foole is at his left hand.

    3And also when the foole goeth by the way, his heart faileth, and he telleth vnto all that he is a foole.

  • Eccl 8:10
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    10And likewise I sawe the wicked buried, and they returned, and they that came from the holy place, were yet forgotten in the citie where they had done right: this also is vanitie.

  • Ps 92:6
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    6An vnwise man knoweth it not, and a foole doeth not vnderstand this,

  • Eccl 3:18-19
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    18I considered in mine heart the state of the children of men that God had purged them: yet to see to, they are in themselues as beastes.

    19For the condition of the children of men, and the condition of beasts are euen as one condition vnto them. As the one dyeth, so dyeth the other: for they haue all one breath, and there is no excellency of man aboue ye beast: for all is vanitie.

  • Ps 94:8
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    8Vnderstande ye vnwise among the people: and ye fooles, when will ye be wise?

  • Eccl 10:14-15
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    14For the foole multiplieth woordes, saying, Man knoweth not what shall be: and who can tell him what shall be after him?

    15The labour of the foolish doeth wearie him: for he knoweth not to goe into the citie.

  • Prov 17:24
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    24Wisdome is in the face of him that hath vnderstanding: but the eyes of a foole are in the corners of the world.

  • Prov 14:24
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    24The crowne of the wise is their riches, and the follie of fooles is foolishnes.

  • Prov 14:33
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    33Wisedome resteth in the heart of him that hath vnderstanding, and is knowen in the mids of fooles.

  • Eccl 9:5
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    5For the liuing knowe that they shall dye, but the dead knowe nothing at all: neither haue they any more a rewarde: for their remembrance is forgotten.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

  • Eccl 2:21
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    21For there is a man whose trauaile is in wisdome, and in knowledge and in equitie: yet to a man that hath not trauailed herein, shal he giue his portion: this also is vanitie and a great griefe.

  • Job 27:19
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    19When the rich man sleepeth, he shal not be gathered to his fathers: they opened their eyes, and he was gone.

  • Eccl 7:15
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    15(7:17) I haue seene all things in the dayes of my vanitie: there is a iust man that perisheth in his iustice, and there is a wicked man that continueth long in his malice.

  • Prov 10:23
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    23It is as a pastime to a foole to doe wickedly: but wisedome is vnderstanding to a man.

  • 1 Cor 3:19-20
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    19For the wisdome of this worlde is foolishnesse with God: for it is written, He catcheth the wise in their owne craftinesse.

    20And againe, The Lord knoweth that the thoughtes of the wise be vaine.

  • Job 11:11
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    11For hee knoweth vaine men, and seeth iniquitie, and him that vnderstandeth nothing.

  • Job 21:13
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    13They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue.

  • Ps 146:4
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    4His breath departeth, and he returneth to his earth: then his thoughtes perish.

  • Eccl 7:4
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    4(7:6) The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fooles is in the house of mirth.

  • Job 12:2
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    2In deede because that ye are the people onely, wisedome must dye with you.

  • Eccl 5:14
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    14(5:13) And these riches perish by euill trauel, and he begetteth a sonne, and in his hand is nothing.

  • Prov 3:35
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    35The wise shall inherite glorie: but fooles dishonour, though they be exalted.

  • Prov 5:23
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    23Hee shall die for faute of instruction, and shall goe astraie through his great follie.

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3This is euill among all that is done vnder the sunne, that there is one condition to all, and also the heart of the sonnes of men is full of euill, and madnes is in their heartes whiles they liue, and after that, they goe to the dead.

  • Prov 28:11
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    11The riche man is wise in his owne conceite: but the poore that hath vnderstanding, can trie him.

  • Job 32:9
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    9Great men are not alway wise, neither doe the aged alway vnderstand iudgement.

  • Prov 11:29
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    29He that troubleth his owne house, shall inherite the winde, and the foole shalbe seruant to the wise in heart.

  • Eccl 6:6
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    6And if he had liued a thousand yeeres twise tolde, and had seene no good, shall not all goe to one place?

  • Prov 10:14
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    14Wise men lay vp knowledge: but ye mouth of the foole is a present destruction.

  • Eccl 9:16
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    16Then said I, Better is wisdome then stregth: yet the wisedome of the poore is despised, and his wordes are not heard.

  • Prov 14:8
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    8The wisdome of ye prudent is to vnderstand his way: but the foolishnes of the fooles is deceite.

  • Eccl 9:13
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    13I haue also seene this wisedome vnder the sunne, and it is great vnto me.