King James Version (KJV)
Psalms 49:13
“This their way [is] their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.”
Verse in context — Psalms 49
11
Their inward thought [is, that] their houses [shall continue] for ever, [and] their dwelling places to all generations; they call [their] lands after their own names.
12
Nevertheless man [being] in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts [that] perish.
13
This their way [is] their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
14
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
15
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
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