Wisdom 5:8-10

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁸What has our arrogance profited us?
And what good has our boasted wealth brought us?

⁹“All those things have vanished like a shadow,
and like a rumor that passes by;
¹⁰like a ship that sails through the billowy water,
and when it has passed no trace can be found,
no track of its keel in the waves;

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