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title: Psalm 49
slug: kjv/psalm-49
createdAt: 2024-08-25T02:01:04.998Z
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**1 **\{To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.} Hear this, all *ye* people; give ear, all *ye* inhabitants of the world:

**2 **Both low and high, rich and poor, together.

**3 **My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart *shall be* of understanding.

**4 **I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

**5 **Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, *when* the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

**6 **They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

**7 **None *of them* can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

**8 **(For the redemption of their soul *is* precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)

**9 **That he should still live for ever, *and* not see corruption.

**10 **For he seeth *that* wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

**11 **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.

**12 **Nevertheless man *being* in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts *that* perish.

**13 **This their way *is* their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

**14 **Like 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.

**15 **But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

**16 **Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;

**17 **For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

**18 **Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and *men* will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

**19 **He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

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