Wisdom 5:8

8 What hath pride profited us? Or what good hath riches with our vaunting brought us?

Wisdom 5:8 In-Context

6 Therefore have we erred from the way of truth; and the light of righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of righteousness rose not upon us.

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;