Wisdom 2:2-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

² For we are born of nothing, and after this we shall be as if we had not been: for the breath in our nostrils is smoke: and speech a spark to move our heart,

³ Which being put out, our body shall be ashes, and our spirit shall be poured abroad as soft air, and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, which is driven away by the beams of the sun, and overpowered with the heat thereof:

⁴ And our name in time shall be forgotten, and no man shall have any remembrance of our works.

⁵ For our time is as the passing of a shadow, and there is no going back of our end: for it is fast sealed, and no man returneth.