Psalms 49:20

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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  • Ps 49:12 : 12 But man shall not continue in honour: he is like the beastes that die.
  • Ps 73:18-19 : 18 Surely thou hast set them in slipperie places, and castest them downe into desolation. 19 How suddenly are they destroyed, perished and horribly consumed,
  • Eccl 3:18-19 : 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.
  • Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the tree, that he had prepared for Mordecai: then was the Kings wrath pacified.
  • Job 4:21 : 21 Doeth not their dignitie goe away with them? do they not die, & that without wisdom?
  • Esth 5:11-14 : 11 And Haman tolde them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the King had promoted him, & how that he had set him aboue the princes and seruants of the King. 12 Haman sayde moreouer, Yea, Ester the Queene did let no man come in with the King to the banket that she had prepared, saue me: and to morowe am I bidden vnto her also with the King. 13 But al this doth nothing auaile me, as long as I see Mordecai ye Iewe sitting at ye Kings gate. 14 Then sayde Zeresh his wife and all his friends vnto him, Let them make a tree of fiftie cubites hie, and to morowe speake thou vnto the King, that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then shalt thou goe ioyfully with the King vnto the banket; the thing pleased Haman, and he caused to make the tree.

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

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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.

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

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

  • Eccl 3:18-21
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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.

    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?

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    21And he knoweth not if his sonnes shall be honourable, neither shall he vnderstand concerning them, whether they shalbe of lowe degree,

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    3Lorde, what is man that thou regardest him! or the sonne of man that thou thinkest vpon him!

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

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