Psalm 49:6-14

⁶ Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores. ⁷ Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself; ⁸ (Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.) ⁹ So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld. 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. 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. ¹² But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts. 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.) 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.