Psalm 49:12 {48:13}
Good News Translation
Our greatness cannot keep us from death; we will still die like the animals.

New Revised Standard Version
Mortals cannot abide in their pomp; they are like the animals that perish.

Contemporary English Version
Our human glory disappears, and, like animals, we die.

New American Bible
—but man does not abide in splendor. He is like the beasts—they perish.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.

in honour

Psalm 49:20 Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.

Psalm 39:5 Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.

Psalm 82:7 But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the princes.

James 1:10,11 And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away. . . .

1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.

abideth.

beasts

Ecclesiastes 3:18-21 I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts. . . .

Ecclesiastes 9:12 Man knoweth not his own end: but as fishes are taken with the hook, and as birds are caught with the snare, so men are taken in the evil time, when it shall suddenly come upon them.

Context
The Evanescence of Wealth
11And their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names. 12And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.13This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.…
Cross References
Psalm 49:20
Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.

Psalm 82:7
But you like men shall die: and shall fall like one of the princes.

Ecclesiastes 3:18
I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.

Ecclesiastes 3:19
Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity.

Psalm 49:11
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