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What is man, and of what use is he?
    What is his good and what is his evil?
The number of a man’s days is great if he reaches a hundred years.
10 Like a drop of water from the sea and a grain[a] of sand
    so are a few years in the day of eternity.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 18:10 Gk pebble

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