Wisdom 5:13-15

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹³ So we also, as soon as we were born, ceased to be,
and we had no sign of virtue to show,
but were consumed in our wickedness.”^[a]
14 Because the hope of the ungodly man is like chaff^[b] carried by the wind,
and like a light hoarfrost^[c] driven away by a storm;
it is dispersed like smoke before the wind,
and it passes like the remembrance of a guest who stays but a day.

¹⁵ But the righteous live for ever,
and their reward is with the Lord;
the Most High takes care of them.