Psalms 49:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“both low and high, rich and poor alike.”
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BSBPD
“both low and high, rich and poor alike.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Both low and high, rich and poor, together.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Both low and high, Rich and poor together.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Both low and high, together rich and needy.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 49:2 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 2:7The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
- Job 34:19who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.
- Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- Proverbs 22:2The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.
- Isaiah 34:1Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it.
- Jeremiah 5:4Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
- Micah 1:2Hear, O peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and everyone in it! May the Lord GOD bear witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.
- James 1:9The brother in humble circumstances should exult in his high position.
- James 2:1My brothers, as you hold out your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, do not show favoritism.
- Revelation 6:15Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
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