Psalms 49:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

Psalms 49:12 —

Old words in this verse

abide: — stay, remain, live.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 3:18-21
I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. …
Psalms 49:20
Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
Psalms 82:7
But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
Psalms 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Topics

Ambition Animals Beasts Cattle Clean and Unclean Animals Creation Husbandry Instinct

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-14)

In these verses we have, I. A description of the spirit and way of worldly people, whose portion is in this life, Ps. 17:14. It is taken for granted that they have wealth, and a multitude of riches (Ps. 49:6), houses and lands of inheritance, which they call their own, Ps. 49:11. God often gives abundance of the good things of this world to bad men who live in contempt of him and rebellion against…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. Contrasted with this vanity is their frailty. However honored, man abideth not--literally, “lodgeth not,” remains not till morning, but suddenly perishes as (wild) beasts, whose lives are taken without warning.