Psalms 49:12
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
Psalms 49:12 in other translations
| BSB | But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish. |
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| WEB | But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish. |
| ASV | But man being in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish. |
| YLT | And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off. |
| DARBY | Nevertheless, man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. |
| BBE | But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts. |
| Webster | Nevertheless man being in honor abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. |
What does Psalms 49:12 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 49:6-14
Here is a description of the spirit and way of worldly people. A man may have wealth, and may have his heart enlarged in love, thankfulness, and obedience, and may do good with it. Therefore it is not men's having riches that proves them to be worldly, but their setting their hearts upon them as the best things. Worldly men have only some floating thoughts of the things of God, while their fixed thoughts, their…
Psalms 49:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 49:12
- Ecclesiastes 3:18-21
I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
- Psalms 82:7
But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
- Psalms 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
- Psalms 49:20
Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
- Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
- James 1:10-11
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
- 1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
20; 39:5; 82:7; Jas 1:10,11; 1Pe 1:24
abideth.The word {yalin,} rendered abideth, signifies to lodge for a night. Man's continuance in the world, or in honour or distinction, resembles a traveller's lodging at an inn, whence he removes in the morning; and is frequently far more transient and evanescent.
beasts.
Ec 3:18-21; 9:12
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Context
- Psalms 49:11
Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
- Psalms 49:12
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
- Psalms 49:13
This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
Psalms 49:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas el hombre no permanecerá en honra: es semejante á las bestias que perecen. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Leur pensée intérieure est que leurs maisons durent à toujours, et leurs demeures de génération en génération; ils appellent les terres de leur propre nom. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Doch der Mensch, der in Ansehen ist, bleibt nicht; er gleicht dem Vieh, das vertilgt wird. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Si esuriero, non dicam tibi: meus est enim orbis terræ et plenitudo ejus. |