LEB PSA Chapter 49

Wealth and the Fate of the Wicked

• 49 you peoples; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world,
• 2  rich and poor together.
• 3  and the meditation of my heart will be understanding.
• 4  I will[fn] my riddle on a lyre.
• 5 [fn] when iniquity surrounds me at my heels,
• 6  and boast about the abundance of their riches?
• 7  He cannot give to God his ransom
• 8 [fn] the redemption price for their life is costly and it always fails),
• 9  and not see the pit.
• 10 that the wise die, together with the fool and brute they perish,
• and leave their wealth to the next generation.
• 11 they think their houses are forever, their dwelling places from generation to generation.
• They[fn] their lands by their own names.
• 12 his pomp. He is like the beasts that perish.
• 13 is the journey[fn] of those who have foolish confidence, and those after them who accept their sayings.Selah
• 14  death will shepherd them.
• But the upright will rule over them in the morning,
• and their forms will be for Sheol to consume,
• far from his lofty abode.
• 15  from the[fn] of Sheol,
• because he will receive me.Selah
• 16  when the wealth[fn] of his house increases,
• 17 away any of it. His wealth will not follow down after him.
• 18  —and people will praise you when you do well for yourself—
• 19 [fn] will go to the generation of his fathers. Never will they see light.
• 20 its pomp, but does not understand, is like the beasts that perish.