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I will incline mine ear to a parable, I will open my riddle upon the harp.
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Wherefore should I fear in the days of adversity, [when] the iniquity of my supplanters encompasseth me? --
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They depend upon their wealth, and boast themselves in the abundance of their riches. ...
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None can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him,
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(For the redemption of their soul is costly, and must be given up for ever,)
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That he should still live perpetually, [and] not see corruption.
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For he seeth that wise men die; all alike, the fool and the brutish perish, and they leave their wealth to others.
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Their inward thought is, that their houses are for ever, their dwelling-places from generation to generation: they call the lands after their own names.
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Nevertheless, man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
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This their way is their folly, yet they that come after them delight in their sayings. Selah.
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Like sheep are they laid in Sheol: Death feedeth on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their comeliness shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for them.