Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation 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. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Or as when a bird flieth through the air, of the passage of which no mark can be found, but only the sound of the wings beating the light air, and parting it by the force of her flight: she moved her wings, and hath flown through, and there is no mark found afterwards of her way: Wisdom 5:9All those things are passed away like a shadow, and like a post that runneth on, Wisdom 5:10 And as a ship, that passeth through the waves: whereof when it is gone by, the trace cannot be found. nor the path of its keel in the waters: Wisdom 5:12 Or as when an arrow is shot at a mark, the divided air quickly cometh together again, so that the passage thereof is not known: Wisdom 5:13 So we also being born, forthwith ceased to be: and have been able to shew no mark of virtue: but are consumed in our wickedness. Context Wisdom 5…10And as a ship, that passeth through the waves: whereof when it is gone by, the trace cannot be found. nor the path of its keel in the waters: 11Or as when a bird flieth through the air, of the passage of which no mark can be found, but only the sound of the wings beating the light air, and parting it by the force of her flight: she moved her wings, and hath flown through, and there is no mark found afterwards of her way: 12Or as when an arrow is shot at a mark, the divided air quickly cometh together again, so that the passage thereof is not known:… Cross References Wisdom 5:9 All those things are passed away like a shadow, and like a post that runneth on, Wisdom 5:10 And as a ship, that passeth through the waves: whereof when it is gone by, the trace cannot be found. nor the path of its keel in the waters: Wisdom 5:12 Or as when an arrow is shot at a mark, the divided air quickly cometh together again, so that the passage thereof is not known: Wisdom 5:13 So we also being born, forthwith ceased to be: and have been able to shew no mark of virtue: but are consumed in our wickedness. |