Psalms 49:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“This is the fate of the self-confident and their followers who endorse their sayings. Selah”
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“This is the fate of the self-confident and their followers who endorse their sayings. Selah”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.”
King James Version · Public Domain“This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings. [Selah”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“This their way <FI>is<Fi> folly for them, And their posterity with their sayings are pleased. Selah.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 49:13 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ecclesiastes 3:19For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.
- Jeremiah 44:17Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.
- Luke 11:47Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.
- Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
- Luke 16:27‘Then I beg you, father,’ he said, ‘send Lazarus to my father’s house,
- 1 Corinthians 3:19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
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