For his heart is ashes, and his hope vain earth and his life more base than clay:

Wisdom 15:8
And of the same clay by a vain labour he maketh a god: he who a little before was made of earth himself, and a little after returneth to the same out of which he was taken, when his life, which was lent him, shall be called for again.

Wisdom 15:9
But his care is, not that he shall labour, nor that his life is short, but he striveth with the goldsmiths and silversmiths: and he endeavoureth to do like the workers in brass, and counteth it a glory to make vain things.

Wisdom 15:11
Forasmuch as he knew not his maker, and him that inspired into him the soul that worketh, and that breathed into him a living spirit.

Wisdom 15:12
Yea, and they have counted our life a pastime and the business of life to be gain, and that we must be getting every way, even out of evil.