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Sirach 18:6-11 Common English Bible (CEB)

6. It’s impossible to diminishor to increase these things,and it’s impossibleto search out the wonders of the Lord.

7. When people finish,then they are just beginning,and when they pause,then they are puzzled.

8. What are human beings,and what use are they?What’s good about them,and what’s evil about them?

9. The length of a person’s lifeis as much as one hundred years.

10. Like a drop of water from the seaor a grain of sand,so are a few years in the span of eternity.

11. Therefore, the Lord was patientwith them,and he poured out his mercy upon them.

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