MLV(i)
1 Hear this, all you* peoples. Listen, all you* inhabitants of the world,
2 both low and high, rich and poor together.
3 My mouth will speak wisdom and the meditation of my heart will be of understanding.
4 I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my dark saying upon the harp. 5 Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels encompasses me about?
6 Those who trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches, 7 none can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him 8 (for the redemption of their life is costly and it fails everlasting), 9 that he should still live always, that he should not see corruption. 10 Because he will see it.
Wise men die. The fool and the stupid alike perish and leave their wealth to others. 11 Their inward thought is that their houses are everlasting, their dwelling-places to all generations. They call their lands after their own names.
12 Even a man in splendor does not abide. He is like the beasts that perish. 13 This way of theirs is their folly. Yet men approve their sayings after them. Selah.
14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd and the upright will have dominion over them in the morning. And their beauty will be for Sheol to consume, that there is no habitation for it.
15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, because he will receive me. Selah.
16 Do not be afraid because a man is made rich, because the glory of his house is increased. 17 Because when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory will not descend after him.
18 Because while he lived he blessed his soul (and men praise you, when you do well for yourself), 19 he will go to the generation of his fathers. They will never see the light.
20 A man who is in splendor and does not understand, is like the beasts that perish.
4 I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my dark saying upon the harp. 5 Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels encompasses me about?
6 Those who trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches, 7 none can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him 8 (for the redemption of their life is costly and it fails everlasting), 9 that he should still live always, that he should not see corruption. 10 Because he will see it.
Wise men die. The fool and the stupid alike perish and leave their wealth to others. 11 Their inward thought is that their houses are everlasting, their dwelling-places to all generations. They call their lands after their own names.
12 Even a man in splendor does not abide. He is like the beasts that perish. 13 This way of theirs is their folly. Yet men approve their sayings after them. Selah.
14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd and the upright will have dominion over them in the morning. And their beauty will be for Sheol to consume, that there is no habitation for it.
15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, because he will receive me. Selah.
16 Do not be afraid because a man is made rich, because the glory of his house is increased. 17 Because when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory will not descend after him.
18 Because while he lived he blessed his soul (and men praise you, when you do well for yourself), 19 he will go to the generation of his fathers. They will never see the light.
20 A man who is in splendor and does not understand, is like the beasts that perish.