Popular Bible Verses from Psalms of David 49

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For man, how great soe’er his state, Unless he’s truly wise, As like a sensual beast he lives, So like a beast he dies.

But God will yet redeem my soul, And from the greedy grave His greater pow’r shall set me free, And to himself receive.

Then fear not thou, when worldly men In envied wealth abound, Nor though their prosp’rous house increase, With state and honour crown’d. For when they’re summon’d hence by death, They leave all this behind; No shadow of their former pomp Within the grave they find