Good News Translation
In time, no one will remember anything we ever did, and even our names will be forgotten. Our lives will pass away like the traces of clouds and vanish like fog in the heat of the sun.

New Revised Standard Version
Our name will be forgotten in time, and no one will remember our works; our life will pass away like the traces of a cloud, and be scattered like mist that is chased by the rays of the sun and overcome by its heat.

Contemporary English Version
In time we will be forgotten and so will our deeds. Life disappears like a cloud; it melts away like mist in the heat of the sun.

New American Bible
Even our name will be forgotten in time, and no one will recall our deeds. So our life will pass away like the traces of a cloud, and will be dispersed like a mist Pursued by the sun’s rays and overpowered by its heat.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And our name in time shall be forgotten, and no man shall have any remembrance of our works.

And our name in time shall be forgotten, and no man shall have any remembrance of our works.

Wisdom 2:2
For we are born of nothing, and after this we shall be as if we had not been: for the breath in our nostrils is smoke: and speech a spark to move our heart,

Wisdom 2:3
Which being put out, our body shall be ashes, and our spirit shall be poured abroad as soft air, and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, which is driven away by the beams of the sun, and overpowered with the heat thereof:

Wisdom 2:5
For our time is as the passing of a shadow, and there is no going back of our end: for it is fast sealed, and no man returneth:

Wisdom 2:6
Come, therefore, and let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures as in youth.