Psalms 49
1 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
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all inhabitants of the world,
2 also son: descendant/people man also son: descendant/people man unitedness rich and needy
both low and high, rich and poor alike.
3 lip my to speak: speak wisdom and meditation heart my understanding
My mouth will impart wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will bring understanding.
4 to stretch to/for proverb ear my to open in/on/with lyre riddle my
I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle with the harp:
5 to/for what? to fear in/on/with day bad: evil iniquity: crime heel my to turn: surround me
Why should I fear in times of trouble, when wicked usurpers surround me?
6 [the] to trust upon strength: rich their and in/on/with abundance riches their to boast: boast
They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
7 brother: compatriot not to ransom to ransom man: anyone not to give: give to/for God ransom his
No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.
8 and be precious redemption soul their and to cease to/for forever: enduring
For the redemption of his soul is costly, and never can payment suffice,
9 and to live still to/for perpetuity not to see: see [the] Pit: hell (questioned)
that he should live on forever and not see decay.
10 for to see: see wise to die unitedness fool and stupid to perish and to leave: forsake to/for another strength: rich their
For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.
11 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
Their graves are their eternal homes— their dwellings for endless generations— even though their lands were their namesakes.
12 and man in/on/with preciousness not to lodge to liken like/as animal to cease
But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.
13 this way: conduct their loin to/for them and after them in/on/with lip: word their to accept (Selah)
This is the fate of the self-confident and their followers who endorse their sayings.
14 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)
Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode. (Sheol h7585)
15 surely God to ransom soul my from hand: power hell: Sheol for to take: recieve me (Selah) (Sheol h7585)
But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. (Sheol h7585)
16 not to fear for to enrich man: anyone for to multiply glory house: home his
Do not be amazed when a man grows rich, when the splendor of his house increases.
17 for not in/on/with death his to take: take [the] all not to go down after him glory his
For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down.
18 for soul his in/on/with life his to bless and to give thanks you for be good to/for you
Though in his lifetime he blesses his soul— and men praise you when you prosper—
19 to come (in): come till generation father his till perpetuity not to see: see light
he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.
20 man in/on/with preciousness and not to understand to liken like/as animal to cease
A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
