Wisdom 5:9

9 "All those things have passed away like a shadow, and as a courier that hastened by;

Wisdom 5:9 In-Context

7 We wearied ourselves in the way of wickedness and destruction;yea, we have gone through deserts where there lay no way; but as for the way of the Lord, we have not known it.
8 What hath pride profited us? Or what good hath riches with our vaunting brought us?
9 "All those things have passed away like a shadow, and as a courier that hastened by;
10 and as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water which, when it has gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found, neither the pathway of the keel in the waves;
11 or as, when a bird hath flown through the air, there is no token of her way to be found, but the light air, being beaten with the stroke of her wings and parted with the violent noise and motion of them, is passed through, and therein afterwards no sign where she went is to be found;
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