Wisdom 5:8

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

Wisdom 5:8 In-Context

6 So it was we who strayed from the way of truth, and the light of righteousness did not shine on us, and the sun did not rise upon us.

7 We took our fill of the paths of lawlessness and destruction, and we journeyed through trackless deserts, but the way of the Lord we have not known.

8 What 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;

10 like 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;