Psalms 49:20
A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish. A Psalm by Asaph.
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- Ps 49:12 : 12 But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.
- Ps 73:18-19 : 18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction. 19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
- Eccl 3:18-19 : 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.
- Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
- Job 4:21 : 21 Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'
- Esth 5:11-14 : 11 Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king. 12 Haman also said, "Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king. 13 Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." 14 Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet." This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.
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- Ps 49:9-146 verses86%
9 That he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.
10 For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
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.
14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.
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6 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:
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19 he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.
- Eccl 3:18-214 verses72%
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.
20 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
21 Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"
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21 His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.
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8 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
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3 Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?
4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
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16 The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead.
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12 An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.
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17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.
- Job 4:20-212 verses69%
20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
21 Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'
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7 yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'
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22 I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
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9 It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.
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15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.
16 "If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words.
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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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3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
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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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2 "Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don't have a man's understanding.
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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!
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12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
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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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7 "Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."
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22 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?
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48 What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
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9 Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.
10 A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
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24 A man's steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?
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12 One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.
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13 Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.
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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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5 Evil men don't understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
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29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
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23 A man's pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
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8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.
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21 Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.
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9 Don't be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.
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20 Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.
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4 Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,