Wisdom 5:7 CPDV

⁵  How is it that they are counted among the sons of God, and their place is among the holy?

⁶  Therefore, we have strayed from the way of truth, and the light of justice has not shined on us, and the sun of understanding has not risen on us.

⁷  We exhausted ourselves in the way of iniquity and perdition, and have walked a difficult way, while ignoring the way of the Lord.

⁸  How has arrogance benefited us? Or what has exalting in riches brought us?

⁹  All those things have passed away like a shadow, and like a messenger traveling quickly by;