4 fools that we were!His life we accounted madness,and death dishonored.
5 See how he is accounted among the heavenly beings;how his lot is with the holy ones!
6 We, then, have strayed from the way of truth,and the light of righteousness did not shine for us,and the sun did not rise for us.
7 We were entangled in the thorns of mischief and of ruin;we journeyed through trackless deserts,but the way of the Lord we never knew.
8 What did our pride avail us?What have wealth and its boastfulness afforded us?
9 All of them passed like a shadowand like a fleeting rumor;
10 Like a ship traversing the heaving water:when it has passed, no trace can be found,no path of its keel in the waves.