7
When human beings have finished, they are just beginning, and when they stop, they are still perplexed.
8
What are human beings, and of what use are they? What is good in them, and what is evil?
9
The number of days in their life is great if they reach one hundred years.
10
Like a drop of water from the sea and a grain of sand, so are a few years among the days of eternity.
11
That is why the Lord is patient with them and pours out his mercy upon them.
Footnotes 1
[a].
Other ancient authorities add [but the death of each one is beyond the calculation of all]
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