Good News Translation
His heart is made of ashes. His hope is cheaper than dirt. His life is not worth as much as his clay,

New Revised Standard Version
Their heart is ashes, their hope is cheaper than dirt, and their lives are of less worth than clay,

Contemporary English Version
The heart of such workers is made of ashes, their hope is worth no more than dirt, and their lives are of less value than clay,

New American Bible
Ashes his heart is! more worthless than earth is his hope, more ignoble than clay his life;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For his heart is ashes, and his hope vain earth and his life more base than clay:

For his heart is ashes, and his hope vain earth and his life more base than clay:

Wisdom 15:8
And of the same clay by a vain labour he maketh a god: he who a little before was made of earth himself, and a little after returneth to the same out of which he was taken, when his life, which was lent him, shall be called for again.

Wisdom 15:9
But his care is, not that he shall labour, nor that his life is short, but he striveth with the goldsmiths and silversmiths: and he endeavoureth to do like the workers in brass, and counteth it a glory to make vain things.

Wisdom 15:11
Forasmuch as he knew not his maker, and him that inspired into him the soul that worketh, and that breathed into him a living spirit.

Wisdom 15:12
Yea, and they have counted our life a pastime and the business of life to be gain, and that we must be getting every way, even out of evil.