- [To the chiefe Musician,
a Psalme for the sonnes of Korah.]
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- Heare this, all yee people, giue eare all yee inhabitants of the world:
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- Both low, and high, rich and poore together.
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- My mouth shall speake of wisedome: and the meditation of my heart shalbe of vnderstanding.
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- I will incline mine eare to a parable;
I will open my darke saying vpon the harpe.
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- Wherefore should I feare in the daies of euill, when the iniquitie of my heeles shall compasse me about?
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- They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselues in the multitude of their riches:
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- None of them can by any meanes redeeme his brother, nor giue to God a ransome for him:
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- (For the redemption of their soule is precious, and it ceaseth for euer.)
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- That he should still liue for euer, and not see corruption.
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- For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the foole, and the brutish person perish, and leaue their wealth to others.
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- Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for euer, and their dwelling places to all generations;
they call their lands after their owne names.
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- Neuerthelesse man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beastes that perish.
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- This their way is their follie;
yet their posteritie approue their sayings. Selah.
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- Like sheepe they are layd in the graue, death shall feede on them;
and the vpright shall haue dominion ouer them in the morning, and their beauty shall consume in the graue, from their dwelling.
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- But God will redeeme my soule from the power of the graue;
for he shall receiue me. Selah.
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- Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased.
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- For when he dieth, he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
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- Though whiles he liued, he blessed his soule: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thy selfe.
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- Hee shall goe to the generation of his fathers, they shall neuer see light.
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- Man that is in honour and vnderstandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
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