Psalms 49:10

World English Bible (2000)

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

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  • Ps 39:6 : 6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
  • Ps 73:22 : 22 I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
  • Prov 30:2 : 2 "Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don't have a man's understanding.
  • Eccl 2:16-21 : 16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool! 17 So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind. 18 I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me. 19 Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. 20 Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun. 21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
  • Eccl 2:26 : 26 For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
  • Eccl 5:13-16 : 13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm. 14 Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand. 15 As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand. 16 This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
  • Eccl 9:1-2 : 1 For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them. 2 All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
  • Ps 92:6-7 : 6 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this: 7 though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
  • Ps 49:17 : 17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.
  • Prov 11:4 : 4 Riches don't profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
  • Prov 12:1 : 1 Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
  • Ps 17:14 : 14 from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
  • Rom 5:12-14 : 12 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned. 13 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
  • 1 Tim 6:6-9 : 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can't carry anything out. 8 But having food and clothing, we will be content with that. 9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

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    14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness--and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

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  • Ps 49:11-13
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    11 Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

    12 But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.

    13 This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.

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    9 That he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

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    8 For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

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

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    17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.

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    19 Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

  • Job 4:21
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    21 Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'

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    2 A wise man's heart is at his right hand, but a fool's heart at his left.

    3 Yes also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

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    10 So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

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    6 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:

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    18 I said in my heart, "As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

    19 For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.

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    8 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

  • Eccl 10:14-15
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    14 A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn't know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

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    24 Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

  • Prov 14:24
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    24 The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.

  • Prov 14:33
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    33 Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.

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    6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

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    15 All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

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    19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He has taken the wise in their craftiness."

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    4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

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    4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

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    2 "No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

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    14 Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

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    23 He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

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    11 The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

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    9 It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

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    29 He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

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    14 Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

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    13 I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.