1Listen to this, all you people. Open your ears, all who live in the world. 2Listen you common people and important ones, rich people and poor ones. 3My mouth will speak wisdom. I have carefully considered understanding insights. 4I will incline my ear turn my attention to a proverb. I will explain my riddle with the music of a harp. 5Why should I be afraid in times of trouble, when slanderers surround me with evil? 6They trust their riches and brag about their abundant wealth. 7No one can ever redeem buy back his brother or pay God a ransom for his life. 8The price to be paid for him is so costly it can never be paid 9so they should live forever and never see the grave pitdestruction. 10One can see that wise people die, that foolish and stupid people meet the same end. They leave their wealth to others. 11Inwardly they think their houses are forever, their dwelling place to all generations. So they named their lands after themselves. 12But mortals will not continue here with what they treasure. They are like animals that die. 13This is the final outcome for fools and their followers who are delighted by what they say: 14Like sheep, they are laid in the grave. Death will shepherd them. The upright will rule them in the morning. Their forms will decay in the grave, far away from their comfortable homes. 15But God will redeem me buy me back from the power of the grave because he will receive me. 16Do not be afraid when someone becomes rich, when the greatness of his house increases. 17He will not take anything with him when he dies. Even his greatness cannot follow him. 18Even though he blesses himself while he is alive. People will praise you when you do well for yourself. 19He must join the generation of his ancestors who will never see light again. 20Mortals, with what they treasure, still do not have understanding. They are like animals that die.