Wisdom 15:9-11

New Catholic Bible

⁹ However, he is not concerned about death
    or that his span of life is brief;
rather he competes with artisans in gold and silver
    and emulates workers in bronze,
    and he takes pride in making models of false gods.
¹⁰ His heart is ashes, his hopes of less value than common dirt,
    and his life less worthy than clay,
¹¹ because he failed to recognize the one who fashioned him
    and breathed into him an active soul
    and infused into him a living spirit.