Psalm 49:20 “A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that per…”

Psalm 49:20

A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.

American Standard Version

Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish.

Geneva Bible 1599

Man is in honour, and vnderstandeth not: he is like to beasts that perish.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

Man in honour, who understandest not, Hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off!

Bible in Basic English

Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

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Cross references

“Man”

Psalm 49:12 Esther 7:10 Esther 5:11–14

Psalm 49:12 · BSB

But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.

Esther 7:10 · BSB

So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.

Esther 5:11–14 · BSB

Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over the other officials and servants.

“understandeth”

Job 4:21

Job 4:21 · BSB

Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’

“is like”

Psalm 73:18 Psalm 73:19 Ecclesiastes 3:18 Ecclesiastes 3:19

Psalm 73:18 · BSB

Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.

Psalm 73:19 · BSB

How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

Ecclesiastes 3:18 · BSB

I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.”

Ecclesiastes 3:19 · BSB

For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.

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