Psalms 49
1 For the music director. A psalm of the sons of Korah. Listen to this, everyone! Pay attention, people of the world—
to/for to conduct to/for son: descendant/people Korah melody to hear: hear this all [the] people to listen all to dwell lifetime/world
2 whether you are highborn or lowborn, rich or poor!
also son: descendant/people man also son: descendant/people man unitedness rich and needy
3 For what I say is wise, and my thinking is perceptive.
lip my to speak: speak wisdom and meditation heart my understanding
4 I pay attention to wise sayings; I answer hard questions to a tune on the harp.
to stretch to/for proverb ear my to open in/on/with lyre riddle my
5 Why should I be afraid when trouble comes, when evil enemies surround me?
to/for what? to fear in/on/with day bad: evil iniquity: crime heel my to turn: surround me
6 They trust in their wealth; they boast about their riches,
[the] to trust upon strength: rich their and in/on/with abundance riches their to boast: boast
7 but no one can pay to rescue another from death; no one can pay a ransom to God.
brother: compatriot not to ransom to ransom man: anyone not to give: give to/for God ransom his
8 Redemption is beyond price; no one could ever pay enough
and be precious redemption soul their and to cease to/for forever: enduring
9 that they could live forever and not face the grave.
and to live still to/for perpetuity not to see: see [the] Pit: hell (questioned)
10 Everyone knows that the wise die, those who are foolish and stupid too, leaving what they have to the next generation.
for to see: see wise to die unitedness fool and stupid to perish and to leave: forsake to/for another strength: rich their
11 They think their homes will last forever, that where they live will continue for all generations.
entrails: inner parts their house: home their to/for forever: enduring tabernacle their to/for generation and generation to call: call by in/on/with name their upon land: soil
12 But human beings, for all their fame, don't understand. They die, just like the animals.
and man in/on/with preciousness not to lodge to liken like/as animal to cease
13 This is the way of foolish people, yet those who come after them think they were clever! (Selah)
this way: conduct their loin to/for them and after them in/on/with lip: word their to accept (Selah)
14 Like sheep they are destined for the grave. Death will be their shepherd. Those who live right will rule over them in the morning. Their bodies will decay in the grave, far from their homes. (Sheol h7585)
like/as flock to/for hell: Sheol to appoint death to pasture them and to rule in/on/with them upright to/for morning (and rock their *Q(K)*) to/for to become old hell: Sheol from elevation to/for him (Sheol h7585)
15 But surely God will rescue me from the power of the grave; he will grab me back. (Selah) (Sheol h7585)
surely God to ransom soul my from hand: power hell: Sheol for to take: recieve me (Selah) (Sheol h7585)
16 Don't be disturbed when people become rich, filling their houses with possessions.
not to fear for to enrich man: anyone for to multiply glory house: home his
17 For they won't take anything with them when they die; their wealth will not go down into the grave with them.
for not in/on/with death his to take: take [the] all not to go down after him glory his
18 They congratulate themselves for all they possess—people always praise you when you do well—
for soul his in/on/with life his to bless and to give thanks you for be good to/for you
19 but their destiny is the same as their forefathers: they will never again see the light of day.
to come (in): come till generation father his till perpetuity not to see: see light
20 Human beings, for all their fame, don't understand, and they die, just like the animals.
man in/on/with preciousness and not to understand to liken like/as animal to cease
