Psalm 49:20
A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
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- Psalm 49:12 But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.
- Ecclesiastes 3:18–19 I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.” For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other — they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.
- Esther 7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.