Psalm 49:10 {48:11}
Good News Translation
Anyone can see that even the wise die, as well as the foolish and stupid. They all leave their riches to their descendants.

New Revised Standard Version
When we look at the wise, they die; fool and dolt perish together and leave their wealth to others.

Contemporary English Version
We see that wise people die, and so do stupid fools. Then their money is left for someone else.

New American Bible
Indeed, he will see that the wise die, and the fool will perish together with the senseless, and they leave their wealth to others.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying: the senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave their riches to strangers:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying: the senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave their riches to strangers:

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Ecclesiastes 2:16-21 For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool forever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned. . . .

Ecclesiastes 9:1,2 All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might carefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their works are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love, or hatred: . . .

Romans 5:12-14 Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world and by sin death: and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned. . . .

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:

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Psalm 73:22 And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.

Psalm 92:6,7 The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things. . . .

Psalm 94:8 Understand, ye senseless among the people: and, you fools, be wise at last.

Proverbs 12:1 He that is good, shall draw grace from the Lord: but he that trusteth in his own devices, doth wickedly.

Proverbs 30:2 I am the most foolish of men, and the wisdom of men is not with me.

Jeremiah 10:8 They shall be all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood.

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Psalm 49:17 For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.

Psalm 17:14 From the enemies of thy hand. O Lord, divide them from the few of the earth in their life: their belly is filled from thy hidden stores. They are full of children: and they have left to their little ones the rest of their substance.

Psalm 39:6 Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.

Proverbs 11:4 The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 2:18,19,21,26 Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me, . . .

Ecclesiastes 5:13-16 There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner. . . .

Jeremiah 17:11 As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall be a fool.

Luke 12:20 But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

1 Timothy 6:6-10 But godliness with contentment is great gain. . . .

Context
The Evanescence of Wealth
9And shall still live unto the end. 10He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying: the senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave their riches to strangers:11And their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names.…
Cross References
Luke 12:20
But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

Psalm 39:6
Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.

Psalm 73:22
And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.

Psalm 92:6
The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things.

Psalm 94:8
Understand, ye senseless among the people: and, you fools, be wise at last.

Proverbs 30:2
I am the most foolish of men, and the wisdom of men is not with me.

Ecclesiastes 2:14
The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.

Ecclesiastes 2:16
For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool forever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned.

Ecclesiastes 2:18
Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,

Ecclesiastes 2:21
For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity, and a great evil.

Psalm 49:9
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