Psalm 49:2 {48:3}
Good News Translation
great and small alike, rich and poor together.

New Revised Standard Version
both low and high, rich and poor together.

Contemporary English Version
Listen, no matter who you are, rich or poor.

New American Bible
You of lowly birth or high estate, rich and poor together.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.

Psalm 62:9 But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive.

1 Samuel 2:7,8 The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth: . . .

Job 34:19 Who accepteth not the persons of princes: nor hath regarded the tyrant, when he contended against the poor man: for all are the work of his hands.

Proverbs 22:2 The rich and poor have met one another: the Lord is the maker of them both.

Jeremiah 5:4,5 But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God. . . .

James 1:9-11 But let the brother of low condition glory in his exaltation: . . .

James 2:1-7 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, with respect of persons. . . .

Revelation 6:15-17 And the kings of the earth and the princes and tribunes and the rich and the strong and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of mountains: . . .

Context
The Evanescence of Wealth
1Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core. [2] Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world. 2All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.3My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding.…
Cross References
Psalm 62:9
But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive.

Isaiah 2:9
And man hath bowed himself down, and man hath been debased: therefore forgive them not.

Jeremiah 17:20
And thou shalt say to them: Hear the word of the Lord, ye kings of Juda, and al Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates.

Psalm 49:1
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