2. Seeing this, they will be troubled with terrible fear, and they will be amazed at the suddenness of unexpected salvation.
3. Driven toward regret, and through the anguish of their groaning spirit, they will say within themselves: "These are the ones whom we held for some time in derision and in mocking reproach.
4. We foolish considered their life to be madness, and their end to be without honor.
5. How is it that they are counted among the sons of God, and their place is among the holy?
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;