| 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. |
