Wisdom 5:8-10

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁸ What hath pride profited us? or what advantage hath the boasting of riches brought us?

⁹ All those things are passed away like a shadow, and like a post that runneth on,

¹⁰ And as a ship that passeth through the waves: whereof when it is gone by, the trace cannot be found, nor the path of its keel in the waters: