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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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in honour
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Psa 49:20; Psa 39:5; Psa 82:7; Jam 1:10,11; 1Pe 1:24 |
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abideth
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The word yalin, rendered abideth, signifies to lodge for a night. Man's continuance in the world, or in honour or distinction, resembles a traveller's lodging at an inn, whence he removes in the morning; and is frequently far more transient and evanescent. |
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beasts
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Ecc 3:18-21; Ecc 9:12 |
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Psa 49:20 |
Man [that is] in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts [that] perish. |
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Psa 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. |
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Psa 82:7 |
But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. |
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Jam 1:10 |
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. |
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Jam 1:11 |
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. |
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1Pe 1:24 |
For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: |
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Ecc 3:18 |
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. |
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Ecc 3:19 |
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity. |
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Ecc 3:20 |
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. |
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Ecc 3:21 |
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? |
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Ecc 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. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Psalms 49:12," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Psa/49/12.html>.
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