Wisdom 2:5
Good News Translation
Our time on earth is like a passing shadow. There is no escape from the day of our death; it is fixed, and no one can postpone it."

New Revised Standard Version
For our allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death, because it is sealed up and no one turns back.

Contemporary English Version
Time fades away like a shadow, and no one returns from death.

New American Bible
For our lifetime is the passing of a shadow; and our dying cannot be deferred because it is fixed with a seal; and no one returns.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For our time is as the passing of a shadow, and there is no going back of our end: for it is fast sealed, and no man returneth:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For our time is as the passing of a shadow, and there is no going back of our end: for it is fast sealed, and no man returneth:

Wisdom 2:3
Which being put out, our body shall be ashes, and our spirit shall be poured abroad as soft air, and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, which is driven away by the beams of the sun, and overpowered with the heat thereof:

Wisdom 2:4
And our name in time shall be forgotten, and no man shall have any remembrance of our works.

Wisdom 2:6
Come, therefore, and let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth.

Wisdom 2:7
Let us fill ourselves with costly wine, and ointments: and let not the flower of the time pass by us.

Context
Wisdom 2
4And our name in time shall be forgotten, and no man shall have any remembrance of our works. 5For our time is as the passing of a shadow, and there is no going back of our end: for it is fast sealed, and no man returneth: 6Come, therefore, and let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth.…
Cross References
Wisdom 2:3
Which being put out, our body shall be ashes, and our spirit shall be poured abroad as soft air, and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, which is driven away by the beams of the sun, and overpowered with the heat thereof:

Wisdom 2:4
And our name in time shall be forgotten, and no man shall have any remembrance of our works.

Wisdom 2:6
Come, therefore, and let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth.

Wisdom 2:7
Let us fill ourselves with costly wine, and ointments: and let not the flower of the time pass by us.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 2:4
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