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Wisdom 5:12

Or as when an arrow is shot at a mark, the divided air presently cometh together again, so that the passage thereof is not known:

The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): aut tamquam sagitta emissa in locum destinatum, divisus aër continuo in se reclusus est, ut ignoretur transitus illius :
Septuagint (Swete): ἢ ὡς βέλους βληθέντος ἐπὶ σκοπὸν τμηθεὶς ὁ ἀὴρ εὐθέως εἰς ἑαυτὸν ἀνελύθη, ὡς ἀγνοῆσαι τὴν δίοδον αὐτοῦ·