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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For the choir director. A psalm of the sons of Korah. Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all who inhabit the world, |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2both low and high, rich and poor together. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3My mouth speaks wisdom; my heart's meditation brings understanding. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I turn my ear to a proverb; I explain my riddle with a lyre. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Why should I fear in times of trouble? The iniquity of my foes surrounds me. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6They trust in their wealth and boast of their abundant riches. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Yet these cannot redeem a person or pay his ransom to God-- |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8since the price of redeeming him is too costly, one should forever stop trying-- |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9so that he may live forever and not see the Pit. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For one can see that wise men die; foolish and stupid men also pass away. Then they leave their wealth to others. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Their graves are their eternal homes, their homes from generation to generation, though they have named estates after themselves. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But despite his assets, man will not last; he is like the animals that perish. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13This is the way of those who are arrogant, and of their followers, who approve of their words. Selah |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Like sheep they are headed for Sheol; Death will shepherd them. The upright will rule over them in the morning, and their form will waste away in Sheol, far from their lofty abode. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15But God will redeem my life from the power of Sheol, for He will take me. Selah |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Do not be afraid when a man gets rich, when the wealth of his house increases. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For when he dies, he will take nothing at all; his wealth will not follow him down. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Though he praises himself during his lifetime-- and people praise you when you do well for yourself-- |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19he will go to the generation of his fathers; they will never see the light. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20A man with valuable possessions but without understanding is like the animals that perish. |
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