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Open your ears, all who live in the world-</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/49-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>common people and important ones, rich people and poor ones.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/49-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>My mouth will speak wise sayings, the insights I have carefully considered.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/49-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I will turn my attention to a proverb. I will explain my riddle with the [music of] a lyre.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/49-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Why should I be afraid in times of trouble, when slanderers surround me with evil?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/49-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They trust their riches and brag about their abundant wealth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/49-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>No one can ever buy back another person or pay God a ransom for his life.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/49-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The price to be paid for his soul is too costly. He must always give up</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/49-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>in order to live forever and never see the pit.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/49-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Indeed, one can see that wise people die, that foolish and stupid people meet the same end. They leave their riches to others.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/49-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Although they named their lands after themselves, their graves have become their homes for ages to come, their dwelling places throughout every generation. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/49-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But mortals will not continue here with what they treasure. They are like animals that die.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/49-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>This is the final outcome for fools and their followers who are delighted by what they say: [Selah]</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/49-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Like sheep, they are driven to hell with death as their shepherd. (Decent people will rule them in the morning.) Their forms will decay in the grave, far away from their comfortable homes.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/49-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But God will buy me back from the power of hell because he will take me. [Selah]</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/49-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Do not be afraid when someone becomes rich, when the greatness of his house increases.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/49-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>He will not take anything with him when he dies. His greatness cannot follow him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/49-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Even though he blesses himself while he is alive (and they praise you when you do well for yourself),</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/49-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>he must join the generation of his ancestors, who will never see light [again].</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/49-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Mortals, with what they treasure, still don't have understanding. They are like animals that die.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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