Psalms 49

1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,

to/for to conduct to/for son: descendant/people Korah melody to hear: hear this all [the] people to listen all to dwell lifetime/world

2 both low and high, rich and poor together.

also son: descendant/people man also son: descendant/people man unitedness rich and needy

3 My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart will utter understanding.

lip my to speak: speak wisdom and meditation heart my understanding

4 I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will solve my riddle on the harp.

to stretch to/for proverb ear my to open in/on/with lyre riddle my

5 Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

to/for what? to fear in/on/with day bad: evil iniquity: crime heel my to turn: surround me

6 Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—

[the] to trust upon strength: rich their and in/on/with abundance riches their to boast: boast

7 none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

brother: compatriot not to ransom to ransom man: anyone not to give: give to/for God ransom his

8 For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,

and be precious redemption soul their and to cease to/for forever: enduring

9 that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

and to live still to/for perpetuity not to see: see [the] Pit: hell (questioned)

10 For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

for to see: see wise to die unitedness fool and stupid to perish and to leave: forsake to/for another strength: rich their

11 Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

entrails: inner parts their house: home their to/for forever: enduring tabernacle their to/for generation and generation to call: call by in/on/with name their upon land: soil

12 But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.

and man in/on/with preciousness not to lodge to liken like/as animal to cease

13 This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. (Selah)

this way: conduct their loin to/for them and after them in/on/with lip: word their to accept (Selah)

14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion. (Sheol h7585)

like/as flock to/for hell: Sheol to appoint death to pasture them and to rule in/on/with them upright to/for morning (and rock their *QK) to/for to become old hell: Sheol from elevation to/for him (Sheol h7585)

15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. (Selah) (Sheol h7585)

surely God to ransom soul my from hand: power hell: Sheol for to take: recieve me (Selah) (Sheol h7585)

16 Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;

not to fear for to enrich man: anyone for to multiply glory house: home his

17 for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.

for not in/on/with death his to take: take [the] all not to go down after him glory his

18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself—

for soul his in/on/with life his to bless and to give thanks you for be good to/for you

19 he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

to come (in): come till generation father his till perpetuity not to see: see light

20 A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.

man in/on/with preciousness and not to understand to liken like/as animal to cease