Psalm 49:20


A man [who is held] in honor,
Yet who lacks [spiritual] understanding and a teachable heart, is like the beasts that perish.

Psalm 49:12


But man, with all his [self] honor and pomp, will not endure;
He is like the beasts that perish.

Esther 5:11-14

Then Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the large number of his sons, and every instance in which the king had magnified him and how he had promoted him over the officials and servants of the king.

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s anger subsided.

Job 4:21


‘Is not their tent-cord drawn up within them [so that the tent collapses]?
Do they not die, and yet without [acquiring] wisdom?’

Psalm 73:18-19


Surely You set the wicked-minded and immoral on slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.

Ecclesiastes 3:18-19

I said to myself regarding the sons of men, “God is surely testing them in order for them to see that [by themselves, without God] they are [only] animals.”

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Summary

Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

Understandeth

Bible References

Man

Psalm 49:12

But man, with all his [self] honor and pomp, will not endure;
He is like the beasts that perish.
Esther 5:11
Then Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the large number of his sons, and every instance in which the king had magnified him and how he had promoted him over the officials and servants of the king.
Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s anger subsided.

Understandeth

Job 4:21

‘Is not their tent-cord drawn up within them [so that the tent collapses]?
Do they not die, and yet without [acquiring] wisdom?’

Is like

Psalm 73:18

Surely You set the wicked-minded and immoral on slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.
Ecclesiastes 3:18
I said to myself regarding the sons of men, “God is surely testing them in order for them to see that [by themselves, without God] they are [only] animals.”