诗49:1 可拉子孙的诗，交给诗班长。万民哪！你们要听这话；世上的居民哪！你们要留心听。
诗49:1 <Alamoth. To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.> Give attention to this, all you peoples; let your ears be open, all you who are living in the world.
诗49:2 不论地位高低，或贫或富，都要一同留心听。
诗49:2 High and low together, the poor, and those who have wealth.
诗49:3 我的口要说出智慧的话；我的心要默想明智的事。
诗49:3 From my mouth will come words of wisdom; and in the thoughts of my heart will be knowledge.
诗49:4 我要留心聆听箴言；我要弹琴解开谜语。
诗49:4 I will put my teaching into a story; I will make my dark sayings clear with music.
诗49:5 在患难的日子，暗中迫害我的恶人围绕我的时候，我何须惧怕呢？
诗49:5 What cause have I for fear in the days of evil, when the evil-doing of those who are working for my downfall is round about me?
诗49:6 他们倚靠财富，自夸多财。
诗49:6 Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.
诗49:7 但他们没有一个能把他的兄弟赎回，或把他的赎价交给 神，
诗49:7 Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself;
诗49:8 （因为他生命的赎价非常昂贵，只好永远放弃，）
诗49:8 (Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.)
诗49:9 使他永远活着，不见朽坏。
诗49:9 So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.
诗49:10 他看见智慧人死去，愚昧人和愚顽人一同灭亡，把他们的财产留给别人。
诗49:10 For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others.
诗49:11 他们心里想，他们的家必永存，他们的住处必留到万代；他们以自己的名，称自己的地方。
诗49:11 The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.
诗49:12 但是人不能长享富贵；他们就像要灭亡的牲畜一样。
诗49:12 But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.
诗49:13 这就是愚昧人的道路；但在他们以后的人，还欣赏他们的话。（细拉）
诗49:13 This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)
诗49:14 他们好像羊群被派定下阴间；死亡必作他们的牧人。到了早晨，正直人要管辖他们；他们的形体必被阴间消灭，他们再没有住处。
诗49:14 Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.
诗49:15 但 神必救赎我的灵魂脱离阴间的权势，因为他必把我接去。（细拉）
诗49:15 But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)
诗49:16 别人发财，家室增荣的时候，你不要惧怕。
诗49:16 Have no fear when wealth comes to a man, and the glory of his house is increased;
诗49:17 因为他死的时候，什么也不能带走；他的荣华也不能随他下去。
诗49:17 For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.
诗49:18 他在世的时候，虽然自称是有福的，并且说：“只要你丰足，人就称赞你。”
诗49:18 Though he might have pride in his soul in his life-time, and men will give you praise if you do well for yourself,
诗49:19 他还要归到他历代的祖宗那里去，永不再见光明。
诗49:19 He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.
诗49:20 人享富贵而不聪明，就像要灭亡的牲畜一样。
诗49:20 Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.