Psalms 49:13. This their way is their folly: yet their prosperity approve their sayings. Selah.
When men have lived only for this world, and die and pass away, without any future worth the having - without any hope of heaven - yet still they report it in the papers that he died "worth" - so much, as if it were wonderful to have so much to leave. And they speak of the shrewd things he used to say - mostly very greedy things, and very grasping things; and though he was a fool, after all, for aiming at the "main chance," as he called it, while he missed the real main chance, namely, the salvation of his soul yet his posterity inherit his folly with his blood, and they approve his sayings.
Psalms 49:13. This their way is their folly: yet their prosperity approve their sayings. Selah.
When men have lived only for this world, and die and pass away, without any future worth the having - without any hope of heaven - yet still they report it in the papers that he died "worth" - so much, as if it were wonderful to have so much to leave. And they speak of the shrewd things he used to say - mostly very greedy things, and very grasping things; and though he was a fool, after all, for aiming at the "main chance," as he called it, while he missed the real main chance, namely, the salvation of his soul yet his posterity inherit his folly with his blood, and they approve his sayings.