Wisdom 5:8-10
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
8 What did our pride avail us?
What have wealth and its boastfulness afforded us?(A)
9 All of them passed like a shadow
and like a fleeting rumor;(B)
10 Like a ship traversing the heaving water:
when it has passed, no trace can be found,
no path of its keel in the waves.
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