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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.