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Isaac Leeser Tanakh - Psalms - Psalms 49

Psalms 49:9-18

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9(49:10) And should he still live for ever? not see the pit?
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;
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:

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