Psalm 49:11 {48:12}
Good News Translation
Their graves are their homes forever; there they stay for all time, though they once had lands of their own.

New Revised Standard Version
Their graves are their homes forever, their dwelling places to all generations, though they named lands their own.

Contemporary English Version
The grave will be their home forever and ever, although they once had land of their own.

New American Bible
Their tombs are their homes forever, their dwellings through all generations, “They named countries after themselves”

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Psalm 5:9 For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.

Psalm 64:6 They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart:

Ezekiel 38:10 Thus saith the Lord God: In that day projects shall enter into thy heart, and thou shalt conceive a mischievous design.

Luke 11:39 And the Lord said to him: Now you, Pharisees, make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter: but your inside is full of rapine and iniquity.

Acts 8:22 Do penance therefore for this thy wickedness: and pray to God, that perhaps this thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee.

all generations [heb.

Genesis 4:17 And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and brought forth Henoch: and he built a city, and called the name thereof by the name of his son Henoch.

1 Samuel 15:12 And when Samuel rose early, to go to Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel that Saul was come to Carmel, and had erected for himself a triumphant arch, and returning had passed on, and gone down to Galgal. And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul was offering a holocaust to the Lord, out of the choicest of the spoils, which he had brought from Amalec.

2 Samuel 18:18 Now Absalom had reared up for himself, in his lifetime, a pillar, which is in the king's valley: for he said: I have no son, and this shall be the monument of my name. And he called the pillar by his own name, and it is called the hand of Absalom, to this day.

Context
The Evanescence of Wealth
10He 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: 11And their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names.12And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.…
Cross References
Genesis 4:17
And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and brought forth Henoch: and he built a city, and called the name thereof by the name of his son Henoch.

Numbers 32:42
Nobe also went, and took Canath with the villages thereof: and he called it by his own name, Nobe.

Deuteronomy 3:14
Jair the son of Manasses possessed all the country of Argob unto the borders of Gessuri, and Machati. And he called Basan by his own name, Havoth Jair, that is to say, the towns of Jair, until this present day.

Job 8:15
He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:

Psalm 10:6
For he hath said in his heart: I shall not be moved from generation to generation, and shall be without evil.

Psalm 64:6
They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart:

Psalm 49:10
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