{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/jps/psa049.htm","path":"bib/jps/psa049.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/jps/psa049.htm","text":"49:1 For the Leader; a Psalm of the sons of Korah.\n49:2 Hear this, all ye peoples; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world,\n49:3 Both low and high, rich and poor together.\n49:4 My mouth shall speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart shall be understanding.\n49:5 I will incline mine ear to a parable; I will open my dark saying upon the harp.\n49:6 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my supplanters compasseth me about,\n49:7 Of them that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches?\n49:8 No man can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him--\n49:9 For too costly is the redemption of their soul, and must be let alone for ever--\n49:10 That he should still live alway, that he should not see the pit.\n49:11 For he seeth that wise men die, the fool and the brutish together perish, and leave their wealth to others.\n49:12 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling-places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.\n49:13 But man abideth not in honour; he is like the beasts that perish.\n49:14 This is the way of them that are foolish, and of those who after them approve their sayings. Selah\n49:15 Like sheep they are appointed for the nether-world; death shall be their shepherd; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their form shall be for the nether-world to wear away, that there be no habitation for it.\n49:16 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the nether-world; for He shall receive me. Selah\n49:17 Be not thou afraid when one waxeth rich, when the wealth of his house is increased;\n49:18 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; his wealth shall not descend after him.\n49:19 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: 'Men will praise thee, when thou shalt do well to thyself';\n49:20 It shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see the light.\n49:21 Man that is in honour understandeth not; he is like the beasts that perish.","title":"Jewish Publication Society Bible: Psalms 49","type":"page"}