Good News Translation
"A ship sails across the waves of the ocean, but when it is gone, it leaves no trace. You cannot tell it was ever there.

New Revised Standard Version
like a ship that sails through the billowy water, and when it has passed no trace can be found, no track of its keel in the waves;

Contemporary English Version
or like the wake of a ship on ocean waves,

New American Bible
Like a ship traversing the heaving water: when it has passed, no trace can be found, no path of its keel in the waves.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And as a ship, that passeth through the waves: whereof when it is gone by, the trace cannot be found. nor the path of its keel in the waters:

And as a ship, that passeth through the waves: whereof when it is gone by, the trace cannot be found. nor the path of its keel in the waters:

Wisdom 5:8
What hath pride profited us? or what advantage hath the boasting of riches brought us?

Wisdom 5:9
All those things are passed away like a shadow, and like a post that runneth on,

Wisdom 5:11
Or as when a bird flieth through the air, of the passage of which no mark can be found, but only the sound of the wings beating the light air, and parting it by the force of her flight: she moved her wings, and hath flown through, and there is no mark found afterwards of her way:

Wisdom 5:12
Or as when an arrow is shot at a mark, the divided air quickly cometh together again, so that the passage thereof is not known: