Sirach 18:7-9

Common English Bible

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 life
is as much as one hundred years.^[a]