Psalms 49:12
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
KJV
Si esuriero, non dicam tibi : meus est enim orbis terræ et plenitudo ejus.
Vulgate
ἐὰν πεινάσω, οὐ μή σοι εἴπω· ἐμὴ γάρ ἐστιν ἡ οἰκουμένη καὶ τὸ πλήρωμα αὐτῆς.
LXX
But man being in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish.
ASV
קִרְבָּ֤/ם בָּתֵּ֨י/מוֹ לְֽ/עוֹלָ֗ם מִ֭שְׁכְּנֹתָ/ם לְ/דֹ֣ר וָ/דֹ֑ר קָֽרְא֥וּ בִ֝/שְׁמוֹתָ֗/ם עֲלֵ֣י אֲדָמֽוֹת
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֲדָמָ֔ה
'dmh
noun · 224×
בֵּ֣ית
byt
noun · 2032×
וֹ
v
noun · 227×
וֹ
v
noun · 848×
יִּקְרָ֥א
yqr'
verb · 737×
כֶ֔ם
km
noun · 164×
מִּשְׁכָּ֖ן
mshkn
noun · 138×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
עוֹלָֽם
'vlm
noun · 427×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Chapter 3.—Whether Death, Which by the Sin of Our First Parents Has Passed Upon All Men, is the Punishment of Sin, Even to the Good. But a question not to be shirked arises: Whether in very truth death, which separates soul and body, is good to the good?579579 On this question compare the 24th and 25th epistles of Jerome, de obitu Leæ, and de obitu Blesillæ filiæ. Coquæus. For …
Cross-references
- 1Pet 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:
- Eccl 3:18 — 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.
- Eccl 3:18 — 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.
- Eccl 3:19 — 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
- Eccl 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 u
- Jas 1:10 — But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
- Luke 16:28 — For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
- Ps 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.
- Ps 49:20 — Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
- Ps 49:20 — Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
- Ps 82:7 — But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
- Ps 82:7 — But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.