Psalm 49:12-15
The Message
12 We aren’t immortal. We don’t last long.
Like our dogs, we age and weaken. And die.
13-15 This is what happens to those who live for the moment,
who only look out for themselves:
Death herds them like sheep straight to hell;
they disappear down the gullet of the grave;
They waste away to nothing—
nothing left but a marker in a cemetery.
But me? God snatches me from the clutch of death,
he reaches down and grabs me.
Psalm 49:12-14
New International Version
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.
Footnotes
- Psalm 49:13 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 15.
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