17
They that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and made no end of their getting?
18
For they that wrought in silver, and were so careful, and whose works are unsearchable,
19
They are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are come up in their steads.
20
Young men have seen light, and dwelt upon the earth: but the way of knowledge have they not known,
21
Nor understood the paths thereof, nor laid hold of it: their children were far off from that way.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.