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49:1  Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core. Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.
49:2  All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.
49:3  My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding.
49:4  I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.
49:5  Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me.
49:6  They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches,
49:7  No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,
49:8  Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever,
49:9  and shall still live unto the end.
49:10  He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying: the senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave their riches to strangers:
49:11  and their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names.
49:12  And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.
49:13  This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.
49:14  They are laid in hell like sheep: death shall feed upon them. And the just shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their help shall decay in hell from their glory.
49:15  But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall receive me.
49:16  Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be made rich, and when the glory of his house shall be increased.
49:17  For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.
49:18  For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.
49:19  He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.
49:20  Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.