Psalms 49:1-15

¹To victory, a psalm to the sons of Korah. All ye folks, hear these things; all ye that dwell in the world, perceive with ears.

²All the sons of earth, and the sons of men; together the rich man, and the poor into one.

³My mouth shall speak wisdom; and the thinking of mine heart shall speak prudence.

⁴I shall bow down mine ear into a parable; I shall open my reason set forth in a psaltery.

⁵Why shall I dread in the evil day? the wickedness of mine heel shall encompass me.

⁶Which trust in their own virtue; and have glory in the multitude of their riches.

⁷A brother again-buyeth not, shall a man again-buy? and he shall not give to God his pleasing.

⁸And he shall not be able to give the price of ransom for his soul; and he shall travail into without end,

⁹and he shall live yet into the end. He shall not see perishing,

¹⁰when he shall see wise men dying; the unwise man and the fool shall perish together. And they shall leave their riches to aliens;

¹¹and the sepulchres of them be the houses of them without end. The tabernacles of them be in generation and in generation; they called their names in their lands.

¹²A man/Man, when he was in honour, understood not; he is compar-isoned to unwise beasts, and is made like to those or them.

¹³This way of them is cause of stumbling to them; and afterward they shall please altogether in their mouth.

¹⁴As sheep they be put in hell; death shall gnaw them. And just men shall be lords of them in the morrow-tide; and the help of them shall wax eld or old in hell, for or from the glory of them.

¹⁵Nevertheless God shall again-buy my soul from the power of hell; when he shall take me.