Wisdom 5:9 CPDV

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;

¹¹  or, like a bird flying through the air, there is no evidence of her journey to be found, but there is hardly a sound as the beating of her wings lifts up the air and, by the force of her journey, divides the air she has flown across, which was disturbed by her wings, and afterwards there is no sign of her journey to be found;