Sirach 18:7-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁷ What is man, and what is his grace? and what is his good, or what is his evil?

⁸ The number of the days of men at the most are a hundred years: as a drop of water of the sea are they esteemed: and as a pebble of the sand, so are a few years compared to eternity.

⁹ Therefore God is patient in them, and poureth forth his mercy upon them.