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12 Even rich people do not live forever.
    Like the animals, people die.

13 This is what will happen to people who trust in themselves.
    And this will happen to their followers who believe them. Selah
14 Like sheep, they must die.
    And death will be their shepherd.
Honest people will rule over them in the morning.
    Their bodies will rot in a grave far from home.

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12 People, despite their wealth, do not endure;(A)
    they are like the beasts that perish.(B)

13 This is the fate of those who trust in themselves,(C)
    and of their followers, who approve their sayings.[a]
14 They are like sheep and are destined(D) to die;(E)
    death will be their shepherd
    (but the upright will prevail(F) over them in the morning).
Their forms will decay in the grave,
    far from their princely mansions.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 49:13 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 15.