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Why Should I Fear in Times of Trouble?

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

1 Hear this, all peoples! Give ear, all inhabitants of the world, (Ps 78,1; Iz 1,2; Mi 1,2) 2 both low and high, rich and poor together! (Ps 62,9) 3 My mouth shall speak wisdom; the meditation of my heart shall be understanding. (Przyp 1,20; Przyp 9,1) 4 I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre. (Lb 12,8; Ps 78,2; Przyp 1,6; Mt 13,35)

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5 Why should I fear in times of trouble, when the iniquity of those who cheat me surrounds me, (Ps 37,1; Ps 94,13) 6 those who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches? (Job 31,24; Ps 52,7; Przyp 11,28; Mk 10,24; Mk 10,25)

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7 Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life, (Job 33,24; Mt 16,26; Mt 25,9) 8 for the ransom of their life is costly and can never suffice, (Job 36,18; Job 36,19) 9 that he should live on forever and never see the pit. (Ps 16,10; Ps 89,48) 10 For he sees that even the wise die; the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others. (Ps 39,6; Ps 73,22; Ps 92,6; Ps 94,8; Przyp 30,2; Kazn 2,16)

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11 Their graves are their homes forever,^[1] their dwelling places to all generations, though they called lands by their own names. (Rdz 4,17; Ps 5,9; Ps 10,6; Ps 64,6)

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12 Man in his pomp will not remain; he is like the beasts that perish. (Ps 39,5; Ps 49,20; Ps 82,7; Kazn 3,19)

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13 This is the path of those who have foolish confidence; yet after them people approve of their boasts.^[2] Selah (Łk 12,20) 14 Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; death shall be their shepherd, and the upright shall rule over them in the morning. Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell. (Job 24,19; Job 24,20; Ps 39,11; Dn 7,22; Ml 4,3; Łk 22,30; 1 Kor 6,2; Ap 2,26; Ap 20,4)

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15 But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah (Rdz 5,24; Ps 16,11; Ps 17,15; Ps 73,24; Dn 12,2; Oz 13,14)

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16 Be not afraid when a man becomes rich, when the glory of his house increases. 17 For when he dies he will carry nothing away; his glory will not go down after him. (Job 27,19; 1 Tm 6,7) 18 For though, while he lives, he counts himself blessed— and though you get praise when you do well for yourself— (Pwt 29,19; Ps 10,3; Ps 36,2; Łk 12,19)

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19 his soul will go to the generation of his fathers, who will never again see light. (Rdz 15,15; Job 33,30; Ps 56,13) 20 Man in his pomp yet without understanding is like the beasts that perish. (Ps 49,12)