Wisdom 5:13-15

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

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.’
¹⁴ Because the hope of the ungodly is like thistledown^[a] carried by the wind,
and like a light frost^[b] 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.