6. Therefore, we have strayed from the way of truth, and the light of justice has not shined on us, and the sun of understanding has not risen on us.
7. We exhausted ourselves in the way of iniquity and perdition, and have walked a difficult way, while ignoring the way of the Lord.
8. How has arrogance benefited us? Or what has exalting in riches brought us?
9. All those things have passed away like a shadow, and like a messenger traveling quickly by;
10. and like a ship passing over the waves of water, when it has gone by, its trace cannot be found, nor can the pathway of its keel in the waves;