Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)
New American Standard Bible
And of those after them who
King James Version
This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
Holman Bible
and of their followers,
who approve of their words.
International Standard Version
This is the fate of those who are foolish and of those who correct their words after they speak. Interlude
A Conservative Version
This their way is their folly. Yet after them men approve their sayings. Selah.
American Standard Version
This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings. Selah
Amplified
This is the fate of those who are foolishly confident,
And of those after them who approve [and are influenced by] their words. Selah.
Darby Translation
This their way is their folly, yet they that come after them delight in their sayings. Selah.
Julia Smith Translation
This their way folly to them: and those after them will delight in their mouth. Silence.
King James 2000
This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
Lexham Expanded Bible
This [is] the journey [of those who] have foolish [confidence], and those after them [who] accept their sayings. Selah
Modern King James verseion
This way of theirs is their foolishness; yet their followers delight in their sayings. Selah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
This way of theirs is very foolishness, and yet their posterity praise it with their mouth. Selah.
NET Bible
This is the destiny of fools, and of those who approve of their philosophy. (Selah)
New Heart English Bible
This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.
The Emphasized Bible
This, their way, is a folly to them, And yet, their followers, with their mouth, approve. Selah.
Webster
This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
World English Bible
This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.
Youngs Literal Translation
This their way is folly for them, And their posterity with their sayings are pleased. Selah.
Themes
Beasts » Described as » Devoid of immortality
Folly » Of men » General references to
Trust » Those that trust in wealth
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 49:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Misplaced Trust In Wealth
12 But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts. 13 This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.) 14 Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.
Names
Cross References
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
Jeremiah 44:17
But we will certainly do every word which has gone out of our mouths, burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her as we did, we and our fathers and our kings and our rulers, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had food enough and did well and saw no evil.
Luke 11:47-48
A curse is on you! for you make resting-places for the bodies of the prophets, but your fathers put them to death.
Luke 16:27-28
And he said, Father, it is my request that you will send him to my father's house;
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs: