| Psalm 49:20 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | Man in his pomp, yet without understanding, Is like the beasts that perish. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Mortals, with what they treasure, still don't have understanding. They are like animals that die.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. |
| ASV: | Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish. |
| BBE: | Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts. |
| DBY: | Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. |
| ERV: | Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. |
| JPS: | Man that is in honour understandeth not; he is like the beasts that perish. |
| WBS: | Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish. |
| WEB: | A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish. |
| YLT: | Man in honour, who understandest not, Hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off! |
| Psalm 49:20 Cross References |
| XREF: | Psalm 49:12 But man in his pomp will not endure; He is like the beasts that perish.
Ecclesiastes 3:19 For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 49:20 Man [that is] in honour, and {q} understandeth not, is like the beasts [that] perish.
(q) He condemns man's ingratitude, who having received excellent gifts from God, abuses them like a beast to his own condemnation. |
| WES: | 49:20 Understandeth not - Hath not true wisdom. The beasts - Though he hath the outward shape of a man, yet in truth he is a beast, a stupid, and unreasonable creature. |
| MHC: | 49:15-20 Believers should not fear death. The distinction of men's outward conditions, how great soever in life, makes none at death; but the difference of men's spiritual states, though in this life it may seem of small account, yet at and after death is very great. The soul is often put for the life. The God of life, who was its Creator at first, can and will be its Redeemer at last. It includes the salvation of the soul from eternal ruin. Believers will be under strong temptation to envy the prosperity of sinners. Men will praise thee, and cry thee up, as having done well for thyself in raising an estate and family. But what will it avail to be approved of men, if God condemn us? Those that are rich in the graces and comforts of the Spirit, have something of which death cannot strip them, nay, which death will improve; but as for worldly possessions, as we brought nothing into the world, so it is certain that we shall carry nothing out; we must leave all to others. The sum of the whole matter is, that it can profit a man nothing to gain the whole world, to become possessed of all its wealth and all its power, if he lose his own soul, and is cast away for want of that holy and heavenly wisdom which distinguishes man from the brutes, in his life and at his death. And are there men who can prefer the lot of the rich sinner to that of poor Lazarus, in life and death, and to eternity? Assuredly there are. What need then we have of the teaching of the Holy Ghost; when, with all our boasted powers, we are prone to such folly in the most important of all concerns! |
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