WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:25:22 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg transitoriness – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Bible, Vol. 1. Old Testament -- Book 22a. Wisdom (Wisdom of Solomon) 5: 8ff (Wis 5:8–9) [tr. CEB (2011)] https://wist.info/bible-ot/86310/ https://wist.info/bible-ot/86310/#respond Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:35:43 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=86310 What good did our pride do us? What good were our wealth and pretension? These things have all passed away like a shadow. They’re gone like old news.

[τί ὠφέλησεν ἡμᾶς ἡ ὑπερηφανία;
καὶ τί πλοῦτος μετὰ ἀλαζονείας συμβέβληται ἡμῖν;
παρῆλθεν ἐκεῖνα πάντα ὡς σκιὰ
καὶ ὡς ἀγγελία παρατρέχουσα·]


The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Book 22a. Wisdom (Wisdom of Solomon) 5: 8ff (Wis 5:8–9) [tr. CEB (2011)]

Wisdom (also known as "Wisdom of Solomon) is one of the Apocrypha, not included in many Protestant Bibles or in the Tanakh (though in the Septuagint). See here for more information on the origin and acceptance of this book.

(Source (Greek)). Other translations:

What hath pride profited us? or what good hath riches with our vaunting brought us?
All those things are passed away like a shadow, and as a post that hasted by;
[tr. KJV (1611)]

What hath pride profited us? or what advantage hath the boasting of riches brought us?
All those things are passed away like a shadow, and like a post that runneth on.
[tr. DRA (1899)]

Arrogance, what advantage has this brought us?
Wealth and boasting, what have these conferred on us?
All those things have passed like a shadow,
passed like a fleeting rumour.
[tr. JB (1966)]

What good has arrogance been to us?
What has been the purpose of our riches and boastfulness?
All those things have passed like a shadow,
passed like a fleeting rumour.
[tr. NJB (1985)]

We were so proud of ourselves — we bragged about how rich we were — and now, what good has it done us? All those things are gone now; they have disappeared like a shadow, like something you hear and then forget.
[tr. GNT (1992 ed.)]

What has our arrogance profited us?
And what good has our boasted wealth brought us?
All those things have vanished like a shadow
and like a rumor that passes by.
[tr. NRSV (2021 ed.)]

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