Sirach 18:7-9

Good News Translation

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

Human Beings Are Nothing

⁸ What are human beings? Of what use are we? The good that we do—the evil that we do—what does it all mean? ⁹ If we live a hundred years, we have lived an unusually long time,