Wisdom 2:4-6

Common English Bible

⁴ Over time, our names will be forgotten. No one will remember our deeds. Our lives will pass away like the last wisps of a cloud. Our lives will be dispersed like a morning mist chased away by the sun and weighed down by the day’s heat. ⁵ Our time here is like a shadow passing by. There’s no turning back from death. It has been sealed, and no one will alter it.

⁶ Come then! Let’s enjoy all the good things of life now. Let’s enjoy creation to the fullest as we did in our youth.