This book is not inspired by God and is not part of the Christian canon or the Jewish Tanakh. It is shown only for historical and study purposes. View full explanation Wisdom 5:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 202114 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. See the chapterMore versionsCommon English Bible14 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. See the chapterCatholic Public Domain Version14 Such things those who sinned said in hell. See the chapterDouay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version14 Such things as these the sinners said in hell: See the chapterGood News Translation (US Version)14 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. See the chapterWorld English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers14 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. See the chapter |