1Hear this, all ye people;
2Both low and high,
3My mouth shall speak of 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 soul is precious,
9That he should still live for ever,
10For he seeth that wise men die,
11Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever,
12Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not:
13This their way is their folly:
14Like sheep they are laid in the grave;
15But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave:
16Be not thou afraid when one is made rich,
17For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away:
18Though whiles he lived he blessed his soul:
19He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
20Man that is in honour, and understandeth not,