Psalm 49:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷Truly, no ransom avails for one’s life,^[a]
    there is no price one can give to God for it.
⁸For the ransom of life is costly,
    and can never suffice,
⁹that one should live on forever
    and never see the grave.^[b]

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Footnotes

Psalm 49:7 Another reading is no one can ransom a brother
Psalm 49:9 Heb the pit

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