Wisdom 5:11-13

Good News Translation

¹¹ A bird flies through the air, but leaves no sign that it has been there. It speeds along, riding through the thin air by the force of its wings, leaving behind no trace of its passing. ¹² An arrow splits the air when it is shot at a target, but at once the air closes up behind it, and no one can tell where it passed. ¹³ It is the same with us—we were born, and then we ceased to be. We left no sign of virtue behind us; we were destroyed by our wickedness.