Psalm 49:13 {48:14}
Good News Translation
See what happens to those who trust in themselves, the fate of those who are satisfied with their wealth--

New Revised Standard Version
Such is the fate of the foolhardy, the end of those who are pleased with their lot. Selah

Contemporary English Version
Here is what happens to fools and to those who trust the words of fools:

New American Bible
This is the way of those who trust in themselves, and the end of those who take pleasure in their own mouth. Selah

Douay-Rheims Bible
This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.

folly

Luke 12:20 But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written: I will catch the wise in their own craftiness.

approve their sayings [heb.

Jeremiah 44:17 But we will certainly do every word that shall proceed out of our own mouth, to sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, our kings, and our princes in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we were filled with bread, and it was well with us, and we saw no evil.

Luke 11:47,48 Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them. . . .

Luke 16:27,28 And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee that thou wouldst send him to my father's house, for I have five brethren, . . .

Context
The Evanescence of Wealth
12And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them. 13This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.14They are laid in hell like sheep: death shall feed upon them. And the just shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their help shall decay in hell from their glory.…
Cross References
Psalm 49:18
For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.

Jeremiah 17:11
As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by right: in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and in his latter end he shall be a fool.

Psalm 49:12
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