Nevertheless man {being} in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts {that} perish.

Doth not their excellency {which is} in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. {that God...: or, that they might clear God, and see, etc}

And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all {the things} wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

Nevertheless man {being} in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts {that} perish.

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all {is} vanity.

Doth not their excellency {which is} in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?

All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?