Psalm 49:20

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

But man in his pomp will not endure;
He is like the beasts that perish.

Then Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, and the

number of his sons, and every instance where the king had magnified him and how he had

promoted him above the princes and servants of the king.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king’s anger subsided.

‘Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them?
They die, yet without wisdom.’

Surely You set them in slippery places;
You cast them down to

destruction.

I said to myself concerning the sons of men, “God has surely tested them in order for them to see that they are but beasts.”