Wisdom 5:12-14

New Catholic Bible

¹² or as when an arrow is shot at a target,
    the air is parted but immediately comes together again,
    and no evidence remains of its passage;
¹³ so we also, as soon as we were born, ceased to be
    and had not a trace of virtue to exhibit
    but were consumed in our wickedness.”^[a]
14 The hope of the godless is like chaff carried on the wind,
    and like sea spray swept before a storm;
it is dissipated like smoke confronted by the wind,
    and it passes away like the memory of a guest who stays but a single day.