Good News Translation
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.

New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
Sinners have no more hope than dust in the wind, or frost in the heat of the sun, or smoke in a breeze. They are remembered no longer than an overnight guest.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Such things as these the sinners said in hell:

Such things as these the sinners said in hell:

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:

Wisdom 5:13
So we also being born, forthwith ceased to be: and have been able to shew no mark of virtue: but are consumed in our wickedness.

Wisdom 5:15
For the hope of the wicked is as dust, which is blown away with the wind, and as a thin froth which is dispersed by the storm: and a smoke that is scattered abroad by the wind: and as the remembrance of a guest of one day that passeth by.

Wisdom 5:16
But the just shall live for evermore: and their reward is with the Lord, and the care of them with the most High.