Psalms 49:20

World English Bible (2000)

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 49:9-14
    6 verses
    86%

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

    10For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

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

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

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

    14They 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.

  • Ps 92:6
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    6A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:

  • Ps 49:19
    74%

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

  • Eccl 3:18-21
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    72%

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

    19For 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.

    20All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

    21Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"

  • Job 14:21
    72%

    21His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it. They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.

  • Ps 94:8
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    8Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

  • Ps 144:3-4
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    3Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

    4Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

  • Prov 21:16
    70%

    16The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead.

  • Job 11:12
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    12An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.

  • Ps 49:17
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    17For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.

  • Job 4:20-21
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    69%

    20Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

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

  • Job 20:7
    69%

    7yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'

  • Ps 73:22
    69%

    22I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

  • Job 32:9
    69%

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

  • Job 34:15-16
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    15all 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.

  • Prov 5:23
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    23He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

  • Job 18:3
    69%

    3Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

  • Ps 146:4
    69%

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

  • Prov 30:2
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    2"Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don't have a man's understanding.

  • Eccl 2:16
    68%

    16For 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!

  • 2 Pet 2:12
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    12But 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,

  • Prov 28:11
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    11The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

  • Ps 52:7
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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."

  • Isa 2:22
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    22Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

  • Ps 89:48
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    48What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

  • Prov 12:9-10
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    67%

    9Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.

    10A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

  • Prov 20:24
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    24A man's steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

  • Prov 11:12
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    12One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

  • Job 28:13
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    13Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

  • Ps 39:6
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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.

  • Prov 28:5
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    5Evil men don't understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

  • Deut 32:29
    67%

    29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

  • Prov 29:23
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    23A man's pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

  • Job 22:8
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    8But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

  • Prov 15:21
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    21Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

  • Ps 32:9
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    9Don'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.

  • Job 18:20
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    20Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

  • Job 20:4
    67%

    4Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,