Wisdom 16:27-29

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²⁷ For what was not destroyed by fire
was melted when simply warmed by a fleeting ray of the sun,
²⁸ to make it known that one must rise before the sun to give you thanks,
and must pray to you at the dawning of the light;
²⁹ for the hope of an ungrateful person will melt like wintry frost,
and flow away like waste water.