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
In his prime, man does not understand. He is like the beasts—they perish.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.

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

Man

Psalm 49:12 And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.

Esther 5:11-14 And he declared to them the greatness of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and with how great glory the king had advanced him above all his princes and servants. . . .

Esther 7:10 So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.

understandeth

Job 4:21 And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.

is like

Psalm 73:18,19 But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down. . . .

Ecclesiastes 3:18,19 I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts. . . .