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[1] Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core.
[2] Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.
[3] All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.
[4] My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding.
[5] I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.
[6] Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me.
[7] They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches,
[8] No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,
[9] Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever,
[10] and shall still live unto the end.
[11] He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying: the senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave their riches to strangers:
[12] and their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names.
[13] And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.
[14] This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.
[15] They 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.
[16] But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall receive me.
[17] Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be made rich, and when the glory of his house shall be increased.
[18] For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.
[19] For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.
[20] He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.
[21] Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.
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