Parallel Verses
Amplified
A man [who is held] in honor,
Yet who lacks [spiritual] understanding and a teachable heart, is like the beasts that perish.
New American Standard Bible
Is
King James Version
Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
Holman Bible
but without understanding
is like the animals that perish.
International Standard Version
Humanity, despite its conceit, does not understand that it will perish, just like the animals. A song of Asaph.
A Conservative Version
A man who is in splendor, and understands not, is like the beasts that perish.
American Standard Version
Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish.
Bible in Basic English
Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.
Darby Translation
Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
Julia Smith Translation
Man in honor shall not understand; being like as the beasts, they perished.
King James 2000
Man that is in honor, and understands not, is like the beasts that perish.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Humankind in [its] pomp, but does not understand, is like the beasts [that] perish.
Modern King James verseion
Man in honor, but without understanding, is like the animals; they shall perish.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
When a man is in honour and hath no understanding, he is compared unto the brute beasts - and becometh like unto them.
NET Bible
Wealthy people do not understand; they are like animals that perish.
New Heart English Bible
A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.
The Emphasized Bible
A son of earth though wealthy, who discerneth not, Hath made himself a by-word, Beasts, they resemble.
Webster
Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
World English Bible
A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish. A Psalm by Asaph.
Youngs Literal Translation
Man in honour, who understandest not, Hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off!
References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 49:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Misplaced Trust In Wealth
19
He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
They shall never again see the light.
A man [who is held] in honor,
Yet who lacks [spiritual] understanding and a teachable heart, is like the beasts that perish.
Cross References
Psalm 49:12
But man, with all his [self] honor and pomp, will not endure;
He is like the beasts that perish.
Esther 5:11-14
Then Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the large number of his sons, and every instance in which the king had magnified him and how he had promoted him over the officials and servants of the king.
Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s anger subsided.
Job 4:21
‘Is not their tent-cord drawn up within them [so that the tent collapses]?
Do they not die, and yet without [acquiring] wisdom?’
Psalm 73:18-19
Surely You set the wicked-minded and immoral on slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.
Ecclesiastes 3:18-19
I said to myself regarding the sons of men, “God is surely testing them in order for them to see that [by themselves, without God] they are [only] animals.”