Psalms 49:9-20

⁹That he should still live perpetually, and not see corruption.

¹⁰For he seeth that wise men die; all alike, the fool and the brutish perish, and they leave their wealth to others.

¹¹Their inward thought is, that their houses are for ever, their dwelling-places from generation to generation: they call the lands after their own names.

¹²Nevertheless, man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

¹³This their way is their folly, yet they that come after them delight in their sayings. Selah.

¹⁴Like sheep are they laid in Sheol: Death feedeth on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their comeliness shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for them.

¹⁵But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol: for he will receive me. Selah.

¹⁶Be not afraid when a man becometh rich, when the glory of his house is increased:

¹⁷For when he dieth, he shall carry nothing away; his glory shall not descend after him.

¹⁸Though he blessed his soul in his lifetime, — and men will praise thee when thou doest well to thyself, —

¹⁹It shall go to the generation of his fathers: they shall never see light.

²⁰Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.