Psalms 49:12-20

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;

¹⁷(49:18) For when he dieth he can take nothing away; his glory will not descend after him.

¹⁸(49:19) For though he bless his soul during his life, and men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself:

¹⁹(49:20) She shall go to the generation of his fathers, unto eternity will these never see light.

²⁰(49:21) Man, though in splendor, who understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. °