Psalms 49:20 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 49:20

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

KJV

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ASV

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 beasts that perish.

YLT

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

DBT

Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, 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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9 verses on the floor

Psalms 49:12
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
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.
Ecclesiastes 3:18–19
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.
Job 4:21
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
Daniel 4:30
The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?

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The upright - Good men whom they abused at their pleasure. Morning - In the day of the general judgment, and the resurrection of the dead. Beauty - All their glory and felicity.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

This is the psalmist's preface to his discourse concerning the vanity of the world and its insufficiency to make us happy; and we seldom meet with an introduction more solemn than this is; for there is no truth of more undoubted certainty, nor of greater weight and importance, and the consideration of which will be of more advantage to us.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

But men in honour that understand not, that are proud, and sensual, and oppressive, are as beasts, and they shall perish, like the beasts, ingloriously as to this world, though not, like the beasts, indemnified as to another world. Let prosperous sinners therefore be afraid for themselves, but let not even suffering saints be afraid of them.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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