Psalms 49:12 · KJV
“Nevertheless man {being} in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts {that} perish.”
— Psalms 49:12
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. {all...: Heb. generation and generation}
This their way {is} their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah. {approve...: Heb. delight in their mouth}
Psalms 49 — Context
For he seeth {that} wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
11Their 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. {all...: Heb. generation and generation}
12Nevertheless man {being} in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts {that} perish.
13This their way {is} their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah. {approve...: Heb. delight in their mouth}
14Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. {beauty: or, strength} {in the grave from...: or, the grave being an habitation to every one of them}
Cross References
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. {that God...: or, that they might clear God, and see, etc}
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. {at...: Heb. settled}
Psalms 49:20
Man {that is} in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts {that} perish.
Psalms 82:7
But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
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.
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: {For: or, For that}