Salmos 49

1Al maestro de coro. De los hijos de Coré. Salmo.

2Oíd esto, naciones todas, escuchad, moradores todos del orbe,

3así plebeyos como nobles, ricos tanto como pobres.

4Mi boca proferirá sabiduría, y la meditación de mi corazón, inteligencia.

5Inclinaré mi oído a la parábola, y al son de la cítara propondré mi enigma.

6¿Por qué he de temer yo en los días malos, cuando me rodea la malicia de los que me asechan,

7los que confían en sus recursos y se glorían de la abundancia de sus riquezas?

8Pues nadie podrá librarse a sí mismo, ni dar a Dios un precio por su redención

9—demasiado caro es el rescate de la vida— ni logrará nunca seguir viviendo por siempre

10sin ver la muerte.

11Pues verá que los sabios mueren, e igualmente perecen el insensato y el necio, dejando sus riquezas a extraños.

12Los sepulcros son sus mansiones para siempre, sus moradas de generación en generación, por más que hayan dado a las tierras sus nombres.

13Porque el hombre no permanece en su opulencia; desaparece como los brutos.

14Tal es la senda de los que estultamente confían, y tal el fin de los que se glorían de su suerte.

15Como ovejas son echados al sepulcro; su pastor es la muerte, y a la mañana los justos dominarán sobre ellos. Pronto su figura se volverá un desecho, y el sepulcro será su casa.

16Pero mi vida Dios la librará de la tumba, porque Él me tomará consigo.

17No temas si alguno se enriquece, si aumenta la opulencia de su casa;

18porque al morir nada se llevará consigo, ni baja con él su fausto.

19Aunque él mientras vivía se jactase, congratulándose de pasarlo bien,

20bajará a reunirse con sus padres, y no verá jamás la luz.

21Pero el hombre en auge no comprende; desaparece como los brutos.

1In finem, filiis Core. Psalmus.

2[Audite hæc, omnes gentes; auribus percipite, omnes qui habitatis orbem:

3quique terrigenæ et filii hominum, simul in unum dives et pauper.

4Os meum loquetur sapientiam, et meditatio cordis mei prudentiam.

5Inclinabo in parabolam aurem meam; aperiam in psalterio propositionem meam.

6Cur timebo in die mala? iniquitas calcanei mei circumdabit me.

7Qui confidunt in virtute sua, et in multitudine divitiarum suarum, gloriantur.

8Frater non redimit, redimet homo: non dabit Deo placationem suam,

9et pretium redemptionis animæ suæ. Et laborabit in æternum;

10et vivet adhuc in finem.

11Non videbit interitum, cum viderit sapientes morientes: simul insipiens et stultus peribunt. Et relinquent alienis divitias suas,

12et sepulchra eorum domus illorum in æternum; tabernacula eorum in progenie et progenie: vocaverunt nomina sua in terris suis.

13Et homo, cum in honore esset, non intellexit. Comparatus est jumentis insipientibus, et similis factus est illis.

14Hæc via illorum scandalum ipsis; et postea in ore suo complacebunt.

15Sicut oves in inferno positi sunt: mors depascet eos. Et dominabuntur eorum justi in matutino; et auxilium eorum veterascet in inferno a gloria eorum.

16Verumtamen Deus redimet animam meam de manu inferi, cum acceperit me.

17Ne timueris cum dives factus fuerit homo, et cum multiplicata fuerit gloria domus ejus:

18quoniam, cum interierit, non sumet omnia, neque descendet cum eo gloria ejus.

19Quia anima ejus in vita ipsius benedicetur; confitebitur tibi cum benefeceris ei.

20Introibit usque in progenies patrum suorum; et usque in æternum non videbit lumen.

21Homo, cum in honore esset, non intellexit. Comparatus est jumentis insipientibus, et similis factus est illis.]

1Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core.

2Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.

3All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.

4My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding.

5I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.

6Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me.

7They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches,

8No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,

9Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever,

10And shall still live unto the end.

11He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying: the senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave their riches to strangers:

12And their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names.

13And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.

14This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.

15They are laid in hell like sheep: death shall feed upon them. And the just shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their help shall decay in hell from their glory.

16But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall receive me.

17Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be made rich, and when the glory of his house shall be increased.

18For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.

19For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.

20He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.

21Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.