Wisdom 5:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Because the hope of the ungodly is like thistledown carried by the wind and like a light frost 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. More versionsCommon English Bible The ungodly person’s hope disappears like dust in the wind, like frost that is stripped away and scattered by a mighty wind, like smoke that rises and is immediately dispersed by the wind, like the memory of a stranger who spends the day and then is gone. Catholic Public Domain Version Such things those who sinned said in hell. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Such things as these the sinners said in hell: Good News Translation (US Version) What hope do wicked people have? Only the hope of straw blown about in the wind, the hope of ocean foam that disappears in the storm, the hope of smoke in the breeze. Their hope lasts no longer than our memory of a guest who stays one day and leaves the next. World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers Because the hope of the ungodly man is like chaff carried by the wind, and as foam vanishing before a tempest; and is scattered like smoke by the wind, and passes by as the remembrance of a guest who stays just a day. Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition Sinners have no more hope than dust in the wind, or frost in the heat of the sun, or smoke in a breeze. They are remembered no longer than an overnight guest. |