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Wisdom of Ben Sira 18:8-10
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom of Ben Sira 18:8-10
New Catholic Bible
What Is a Man?[a]
8 What is a man? What purpose does he serve?
What about him is good, and what is evil?
9 The span of his life is great
if he attains one hundred years.
[But the death of each one is beyond the calculation of all.][b]
10 Like a drop of water from the sea or a grain of sand,
such are these few years compared with eternity.
Footnotes
- Wisdom of Ben Sira 18:8 Believers share the questions of all human beings. God’s universal mercy and its pedagogical character constitute a new aspect of the Old Testament.
- Wisdom of Ben Sira 18:9 Added by some early MSS.
