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The Evanescence of Wealth

Psalms 49:2

In 11 translations

BSB
both low and high, rich and poor alike.
KJV
Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
WEB
both low and high, rich and poor together.
ASV
Both low and high, Rich and poor together.
LSV
Both low and high, together rich and needy.
YLT
Both low and high, together rich and needy.
DBY
Both men of low and men of high degree, rich and poor alike.
DRC48:3
All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.
GNV
As well lowe as hie, both rich and poore.
JPS49:3
Both low and high, rich and poor together.
LXXE48:3
both the sons of mean men, and sons of great men; the rich and poor man together.Gr. earth-born.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC49:3
גַּם־בְּנֵ֣י אָ֭דָם גַּם־בְּנֵי־אִ֑ישׁ יַ֝֗חַד עָשִׁ֥יר וְאֶבְיֽוֹן׃KJV:Ps.49.2
LXX-Br48:3
οἵ τε γηγενεῖς καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἐπιτοαυτὸ πλούσιος καὶ πένης.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
  • James 2:1–7My brothers, as you hold out your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, do not show favoritism. Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes…
  • Jeremiah 5:4–5Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God. I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD,…
  • Job 34:19who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.
  • 1 Samuel 2:7–8The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts. He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the…
  • Proverbs 22:2The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.
  • James 1:9–11The brother in humble circumstances should exult in his high position. But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field. For the sun rises with scorching…
  • Revelation 6:15–17Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on…

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 49:3 in some Bibles
  • 49:2 in most Bibles

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