Psalms 49

²both low and high,

³My mouth will speak words of wisdom.

⁴I will incline my ear to a proverb.

⁵Why should I fear in the days of evil,

⁶Those who trust in their wealth,

⁷none of them can by any means redeem his brother,

⁸For the redemption of their life is costly,

⁹that he should live on forever,

¹⁰For he sees that wise men die;

¹¹Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever,

¹²But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure.

¹³This is the destiny of those who are foolish,

¹⁴They are appointed as a flock for Sheol.

¹⁵But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol,

¹⁶Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich,

¹⁷for when he dies he will carry nothing away.

¹⁸Though while he lived he blessed his soul—

¹⁹he shall go to the generation of his fathers.

²⁰A man who has riches without understanding,