Wisdom 5:11-13

New Catholic Bible

¹¹ or like a bird that flies through the air
    and no sign of its passage is left,
for the light air, whipped by the beat of its pinions
    and cleft by the force of its speed,
is traversed by the flapping wings,
    and afterward there is no sign of its passage;
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]