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Ben Sira 18:6-12 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

6. No one can lessen, increase,or fathom the wonders of the Lord.

7. When mortals finish, they are only beginning,and when they stop they are still bewildered.

8. What are mortals? What are they worth?What is good in them, and what is evil?

9. The number of their days seems greatif it reaches a hundred years.

10. Like a drop of water from the sea and a grain of sand,so are these few years among the days of eternity.

11. That is why the Lord is patient with themand pours out his mercy on them.

12. He sees and understands that their death is wretched,and so he forgives them all the more.

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