Wisdom 5:12
Good News Translation
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.

New Revised Standard Version
or as, when an arrow is shot at a target, the air, thus divided, comes together at once, so that no one knows its pathway.

Contemporary English Version
or like the unknown path of an arrow on its way to the target.

New American Bible
Or as, when an arrow has been shot at a mark, the parted air straightway flows together again so that none discerns the way it went—

Douay-Rheims Bible
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:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 5:10
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 5:11
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 5:13
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.

Wisdom 5:14
Such things as these the sinners said in hell:

Context
Wisdom 5
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: 13So we also being born, forthwith ceased to be: and have been able to shew no mark of virtue: but are consumed in our wickedness.…
Cross References
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 5:11
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 5:13
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.

Wisdom 5:14
Such things as these the sinners said in hell:



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 5:11
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