1Hear this, all ye peoples;
2Both low and high,
3My mouth shall speak wisdom;
4I will incline mine ear to a parable:
5Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil,
6They that trust in their wealth,
7None of them can by any means redeem his brother,
8(For the redemption of their life is costly,
9That he should still live alway,
10For he shall see it. Wise men die;
11Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever,
12But man being in honor abideth not:
13This their way is their folly:
14They are appointed as a flock for Sheol;
15But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol;
16Be not thou afraid when one is made rich,
17For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away;
18Though while he lived he blessed his soul
19He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
20Man that is in honor, and understandeth not,