7
When a man has finished, he is just beginning, and when he stops, he will be at a loss.
8
What is man, and of what use is he? What is his good and what is his evil?
9
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 of sand so are a few years in the day of eternity.
11
Therefore the Lord is patient with them and pours out his mercy upon them.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.