Psalms 49:13
This is the way of foolish people, yet those who come after them think they were clever! Selah.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
In Context
12But human beings, for all their fame, don't understand. They die, just like the animals.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 3:19For what happens to human beings is the same as what happens to animals—in the same way one dies, the other dies too. They all have the breath of life—so regarding any advantage human beings have over animals, there is none. Definitely this is very hard to understand!
Luke 11:47Shame on you! You build memorial tombs to honor the prophets, but it was your own fathers who killed them in the first place!
Luke 16:27The rich man said, ‘Then Father, I beg you, please send him to my father's house.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 49:7-15
The Vanity of Worldly Riches; The End of the Wicked. 6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; 7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: 8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:) 9 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption. 10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. 11 Their inward thought is, that… Read the whole commentary →