Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 18:7-10 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

7. When we come to the end of that story, we have not even begun; we are simply at a loss for words.

8. What are human beings? Of what use are they? The good that they do — the evil that they do — what does it all mean?

9. A person who has lived a hundred years has lived an unusually long time,

10. but compared with all eternity, those years are like a drop of water in the ocean, like a single grain of sand.

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