Psalm 49:20
New Living Translation
20 People who boast of their wealth don’t understand;
they will die, just like animals.
Psalm 49:12
New Living Translation
12 but their fame will not last.
They will die, just like animals.
Ecclesiastes 3:18-19
New Living Translation
18 I also thought about the human condition—how God proves to people that they are like animals. 19 For people and animals share the same fate—both breathe[a] and both must die. So people have no real advantage over the animals. How meaningless!
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- 3:19 Or both have the same spirit.
Job 4:21
New Living Translation
21 Their tent-cords are pulled and the tent collapses,
and they die in ignorance.
Esther 7:10
New Living Translation
10 So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai, and the king’s anger subsided.
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Psalm 73:18-19
New Living Translation
18 Truly, you put them on a slippery path
and send them sliding over the cliff to destruction.
19 In an instant they are destroyed,
completely swept away by terrors.
Esther 5:11-14
New Living Translation
11 and boasted to them about his great wealth and his many children. He bragged about the honors the king had given him and how he had been promoted over all the other nobles and officials.
12 Then Haman added, “And that’s not all! Queen Esther invited only me and the king himself to the banquet she prepared for us. And she has invited me to dine with her and the king again tomorrow!” 13 Then he added, “But this is all worth nothing as long as I see Mordecai the Jew just sitting there at the palace gate.”
14 So Haman’s wife, Zeresh, and all his friends suggested, “Set up a sharpened pole that stands seventy-five feet[a] tall, and in the morning ask the king to impale Mordecai on it. When this is done, you can go on your merry way to the banquet with the king.” This pleased Haman, and he ordered the pole set up.
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- 5:14 Hebrew 50 cubits [23 meters].
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