- [To the chiefe musition,
a psalme of the children of Corach.]
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- Heare this all ye people: geue eare all ye that dwell in the worlde.
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- As well lowe as high: riche and poore, one with another.
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- My mouth shall vtter wisdome: the cogitations of myne heart [wyll bryng foorth] knowledge.
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- I wyll encline myne eare to a parable: I wyll open my darke sentence vpon a harpe.
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- Wherfore shoulde I feare in euyll dayes?
the wickednesse of my heeles [then] would compasse me round about.
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- There be some that put their trust in their goodes: and boast them selues in the multitude of their riches.
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- But no man at all can redeeme his brother: nor geue a raunsome vnto God for hym.
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- For the redemption of their soule is very costly, and must be let alone for euer:
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- yea though he lyue long and see not the graue.
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- For he seeth that wyse men dye: and that the foole and ignoraunt perishe together, and leaue their riches for other.
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- And yet they thynke that their houses shall continue for euer, and that their dwellyng places shall endure from one generation to another: [therfore] they call landes after their owne names.
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- Neuerthelesse, man can not abyde in [such] honour: he is but lyke vnto bruite beastes that perishe.
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- This their way is their foolishnesse: yet their posteritie prayse their saying.
Selah.
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- They shalbe put into a graue [dead] as a sheepe, death shall feede on them: but the ryghteous shall haue dominion of them in the mornyng, their beautie shall consume away, hell [shall receaue them] from their house.
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- But God wyll delyuer my soule from the place of hell: for he wyll receaue me.
Selah.
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- Be not thou afrayde though one be made riche: or yf the glorie of his house be encreased.
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- For he shall cary nothyng away with hym when he dyeth: neither shall his pompe folowe after hym.
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- For whyle he lyued he counted him selfe an happy man: and so long as thou doest well vnto thy selfe, men wyll speake good of thee.
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- But he shal folowe the generations of his fathers: and shall neuer see lyght.
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- A man is in an honourable state, but he wyll not vnderstande it: he is lyke [herein] vnto bruite beastes that perishe.
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