Good News Translation
But an ungrateful person's hope will melt away like frost, and drain away like water that is not being used.

New Revised Standard Version
for the hope of an ungrateful person will melt like wintry frost, and flow away like waste water.

Contemporary English Version
because if we are ungrateful, our hope will melt like frost and flow away like dirty water.

New American Bible
For the hope of the ungrateful melts like a wintry frost and runs off like useless water.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the hope of the unthankful shall melt away as the winter's ice, and shall run off as unprofitable water.

For the hope of the unthankful shall melt away as the winter's ice, and shall run off as unprofitable water.

Wisdom 16:27
For that which could not be destroyed by fire, being warmed with a little sunbeam, presently melted away:

Wisdom 16:28
That it might be known to all, that we ought to prevent the sun to bless thee, and adore thee at the dawning of the light.

Wisdom 17:1
For thy judgments, O Lord, are great, and thy words cannot be expressed: therefore undisciplined souls have erred.

Wisdom 17:2
For while the wicked thought to be able to have dominion over the holy nation, they themselves being fettered with the bonds of darkness, and a long night, shut up in their houses, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.