Psalms 49:20

In 11 translations

BSB

A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.

KJV

Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

WEB

A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.

ASV

Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish.

LSV

Man in honor, who does not understand, || Has been like the beasts, they have been cut off!

YLT

Man in honour, who understandest not, Hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off!

DBY

Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

DRC48:21

Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.

GNV

Man is in honour, and vnderstandeth not: he is like to beasts that perish.

JPS49:21

Man that is in honour understandeth not; he is like the beasts that perish.

LXXE48:21

Man that is in honour, understands not: he is compared to the senseless cattle, and is like them.

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Original-language editions

WLC49:21

אָדָ֣ם בִּ֭יקָר וְלֹ֣א יָבִ֑ין נִמְשַׁ֖ל כַּבְּהֵמ֣וֹת נִדְמֽוּ׃KJV:Ps.49.20

LXX-Br48:21

Ἄνθρωπος ἐν τιμῇ ὢν, οὐ συνῆκε, παρασυνεβλήθη τοῖς κτήνεσι τοῖς ἀνοήτοις, καὶ ὡμοιώθη αὐτοῖς.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 49:12But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.
• Ecclesiastes 3:18–19I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.” For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have…
• Job 4:21Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
• Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
• Esther 5:11–14Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over the other officials and servants. “What is more,” Haman added, “Queen Esther invited no one but me…
• Psalms 73:18–19Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin. How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

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