Psalms 49:12

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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  • Ps 49:20 : 20 Man is in honour, and vnderstandeth not: he is like to beasts that perish.
  • Ps 82:7 : 7 But ye shall die as a man, and yee princes, shall fall like others.
  • Eccl 3:18-21 : 18 I 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. 19 For 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. 20 All goe to one place, & all was of the dust, and all shall returne to the dust. 21 Who knoweth whether the spirit of man ascend vpward, and the spirit of the beast descend downeward to the earth?
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.
  • Eccl 9:12 : 12 For neither doth man knowe his time, but as the fishes which are taken in an euill net, and as the birdes that are caught in the snare: so are the children of men snared in the euill time when it falleth vpon them suddenly.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 Againe hee that is rich, in that hee is made lowe: for as the flower of the grasse, shall he vanish away. 11 For as when the sunne riseth with heate, then the grasse withereth, and his flower falleth away, and the goodly shape of it perisheth: euen so shall the rich man wither away in all his waies.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For all flesh is as grasse, and all the glorie of man is as the flower of grasse. The grasse withereth, and the flower falleth away.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 49:17-20
    4 verses
    86%

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

    18For while he liued, he reioyced himselfe: and men will prayse thee, when thou makest much of thy selfe.

    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 49:9-11
    3 verses
    79%

    9That he may liue still for euer, and not see the graue.

    10For he seeth that wise men die, and also that the ignorant and foolish perish, & leaue their riches for others.

    11Yet they thinke, their houses, and their habitations shall continue for euer, euen from generation to generation, and call their lands by their names.

  • Ps 144:4
    77%

    4Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.

  • Eccl 3:18-21
    4 verses
    77%

    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.

    20All goe to one place, & all was of the dust, and all shall returne to the dust.

    21Who knoweth whether the spirit of man ascend vpward, and the spirit of the beast descend downeward to the earth?

  • Ps 49:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

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

    14Like sheepe they lie in graue: death deuoureth them, and the righteous shall haue domination ouer them in the morning: for their beautie shall consume, when they shall goe from their house to graue.

  • Ps 103:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15The dayes of man are as grasse: as a flowre of the fielde, so florisheth he.

    16For the winde goeth ouer it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall knowe it no more.

  • Ps 146:4
    74%

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

  • Job 34:15
    74%

    15All flesh shal perish together, and man shal returne vnto dust.

  • Job 14:10
    74%

    10But man is sicke, and dyeth, and man perisheth, and where is he?

  • Job 14:2
    74%

    2He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.

  • Job 4:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    19Howe much more in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shalbe destroyed before the moth?

    20They be destroyed from the morning vnto the euening: they perish for euer, without regarde.

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

  • Ps 89:47-48
    2 verses
    73%

    47Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vaine all the children of men?

    48What man liueth, and shall not see death? shall hee deliuer his soule from the hande of the graue? Selah.

  • Isa 2:22
    73%

    22Cease you from the man whose breath is in his nostrels: for wherein is he to be esteemed?

  • Job 20:7
    73%

    7Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?

  • Job 15:29
    72%

    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof in the earth.

  • Ps 39:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.

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

  • 1 Pet 1:24
    71%

    24For all flesh is as grasse, and all the glorie of man is as the flower of grasse. The grasse withereth, and the flower falleth away.

  • Prov 27:24
    71%

    24For riches remaine not alway, nor the crowne from generation to generation.

  • Job 14:12
    71%

    12So man sleepeth and riseth not: for hee shall not wake againe, nor be raised from his sleepe till the heauen be no more.

  • Jas 1:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10Againe hee that is rich, in that hee is made lowe: for as the flower of the grasse, shall he vanish away.

    11For as when the sunne riseth with heate, then the grasse withereth, and his flower falleth away, and the goodly shape of it perisheth: euen so shall the rich man wither away in all his waies.

  • Heb 1:11
    71%

    11They shall perish, but thou doest remaine: and they all shall waxe olde as doeth a garment.

  • Ps 82:7
    70%

    7But ye shall die as a man, and yee princes, shall fall like others.

  • Eccl 2:16
    70%

    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?

  • Eccl 6:11
    70%

    11(7:1) Svrely there be many things that increase vanitie: and what auaileth it man?

  • Ps 102:26
    70%

    26They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: euen they all shall waxe olde as doeth a garment: as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.

  • Jer 12:4
    70%

    4Howe long shall the lande mourne, and the herbes of euery fielde wither, for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein? the beastes are consumed and the birdes, because they sayd, He wil not see our last ende.

  • Job 21:13
    70%

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

  • Job 18:17
    70%

    17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall haue no name in the streete.

  • Job 22:8
    70%

    8But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it.

  • Job 7:17
    69%

    17What is man, that thou doest magnifie him, and that thou settest thine heart vpon him?

  • Ps 39:11
    69%

    11When thou with rebukes doest chastise man for iniquitie, thou as a mothe makest his beautie to consume: surely euery man is vanitie. Selah.

  • Ps 62:9
    69%

    9Yet the children of men are vanitie, the chiefe men are lies: to lay them vpon a balance they are altogether lighter then vanitie.

  • Job 27:19
    69%

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

  • Job 25:6
    69%

    6How much more man, a worme, euen the sonne of man, which is but a worme?

  • Job 8:12
    69%

    12Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe.