We, then, have strayed away from the way of truth, and the light of
justice did not shine for us and the sun did not rise for us. We had our fill
of the ways of mischief and of ruin; We journeyed through impassable deserts,
but the way of the LORD we knew not. What did our pride avail us? What did
wealth and its boastfulness afford us? All of them passed like a shadow and like
a fleeting rumor; like a ship traversing the heaving water, of which, when it
has passed, no trace can be found, no path of its keel in the waves. Or like a
bird flying through the air; no evidence of its course is to be found—but the
fluid air, lashed by the beat of pinions, and cleft by the rushing force of
speeding wings, is traversed: and afterward no mark of passage can be found in
it. Or as when an arrow has been shot at a mark, the parted air straightway
flows together again so that none discerns the way it went through—even so, we,
once born abruptly came to nought and had no sign of virtue to display, but
were consumed in our wickedness…
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