Psalms 49:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

Psalms 49:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 49:12
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
Job 4:21
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 3:18-19
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. …
Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
Psalms 73:18-19
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 15-20)

Good reason is here given to good people, I. Why they should not be afraid of death. There is no cause for that fear if they have such a comfortable prospect as David here has of a happy state on the other side death, Ps. 49:15. He had shown (Ps. 49:14) how miserable the dead are that die in their sins, where he shows how blessed the dead are that die in the Lord. The distinction of men’s outward…

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

(vv. 20)

20. (Compare Psa 49:12). The folly is more distinctly expressed by “understandeth not,” substituted for “abideth not.”