Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Psa 49:20Man [that is] in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts [that] perish.
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Man   Psa 49:12; Est 5:11-14; Est 7:10
understandeth   Job 4:21
is like   Psa 73:18,19; Ecc 3:18,19
Correlating Passages
Man
Psa 49:12 Nevertheless man [being] in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts [that] perish.
Est 5:11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all [the things] wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
Est 5:12 Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.
Est 5:13 Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
Est 5:14 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
Est 7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
understandeth
Job 4:21 Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
is like
Psa 73:18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
Psa 73:19 How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
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.
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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Scott, Thomas. "Psalms 49:20," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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