Ben Sira 18:8

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?

Ben Sira 18:8 In-Context

6 We cannot add to them; we cannot subtract from them. There is no way to comprehend the marvelous things the Lord has done.

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

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,

10 but compared with all eternity, those years are like a drop of water in the ocean, like a single grain of sand.