Psalms 49:12 Cross References - BSB

¹² But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.

⁵ You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

²⁰ A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.

⁷ But like mortals you will die, and like rulers you will fall.”

¹⁸ I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.” ¹⁹ For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile. ²⁰ All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust. ²¹ Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?

¹² For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.

¹⁰ But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field. ¹¹ For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

²⁴ For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,