Wisdom 5:8 CPDV

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;

¹⁰  and like a ship passing over the waves of water, when it has gone by, its trace cannot be found, nor can the pathway of its keel in the waves;