Psalms 49:7-15

⁷They may be rich, but no one can pay money with the result that he would live forever! No one can pay God enough so that God will allow him to continue to live,

⁸because that cost is too grreat, and he will never be able to pay enough

⁹with the result that he will live forever and never die and be buried!

¹⁰We see that foolish and stupid people die, but we see that wise people also die; they all leave their wealth, and others inherit it.

¹¹Those wise people once had houses on land that they owned, but now their graves are their homes forever, the place where they will stay for all time!

¹²Even if people are great, that cannot prevent them from dying; all people die, the same as animals do.

¹³That is what happens to those who foolishly trust in what they have accomplished, to those who are delighted in all that they possess.

¹⁴They are certain to die just like sheep, when a shepherd leads them away to be slaughtered. PRS, MET In the morning righteous people will rule over them, and then those wealthy people will die and their bodies will quickly decay in their graves; they will be where dead people are, far from their homes.

¹⁵But it is certain that God will rescue me so that I am not kept in the place of the dead.