Psalms 49:12 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 49:12

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

KJV

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ASV

But man being in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish.

WEB

But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.

YLT

And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off.

DBT

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

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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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.
Psalms 82:7
But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
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.
Psalms 49:20
Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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His honour does not continue; that is a fleeting shadow. He himself does not, he tarries not all night; this world is an inn, in which his stay is so short that he can scarcely be said to get a night's lodging in it; so little rest is there in these things; he has but a baiting time.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Contrasted with this vanity is their frailty. However honored, man abideth not--literally, "lodgeth not," remains not till morning, but suddenly perishes as (wild) beasts, whose lives are taken without warning.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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