Psalms 49:20

Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother, and didst scandalise thy mother's son.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19Thy mouth has multiplied wickedness, and thy tongue has framed deceit. + 49:19 From these words in Alex. to Ps. 79. 11, thirty psalms are wanting.

21These things thou didst, and I kept silence: thou thoughtest wickedly that I should be like thee; but I will reprove thee, and set thine offences before thee.

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Cross References

Job 10:21before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;

Psalms 73:18Remember this thy creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked thy name.

Ecclesiastes 11:8For even if a man should live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 49:16-20

Privilege of the Godly. 15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah. 16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased; 17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him. 18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself. 19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light. 20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth… Read the whole commentary →

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