Psalms 49:10-16

¹⁰(49:11) For he must see that wise men die, that together the fool and the brutish person perish and leave to others their wealth.

¹¹(49:12) Their inward thought is, that their houses are to be for ever, their dwelling-places, from generation to generation; they call them by their own names in various countries.

¹²(49:13) Nevertheless man in his splendor endureth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

¹³(49:14) This is their way, their folly: yet their posterity will take pleasure in their sayings. Selah.

¹⁴(49:15) Like flocks are they thrust into the nether world; death will feed them; but the upright shall have dominion over them in that morning, and their form wasteth away in the nether world, taken away from their own dwelling.

¹⁵(49:16) But God will redeem my soul from the power of the nether world; for he will take me away. Selah.

¹⁶(49:17) Be not thou afraid when a man becometh rich, when the glory of his house is increased;