Sirach 18:9

9 The length of a person's life is as much as one hundred years.

Sirach 18:9 In-Context

7 When people finish, then they are just beginning, and when they pause, then they are puzzled.

8 What are human beings, and what use are they? What's good about them, and what's evil about them?

9 The length of a person's life is as much as one hundred years.

10 Like a drop of water from the sea or a grain of sand, so are a few years in the span of eternity.

11 Therefore, the Lord was patient with them, and he poured out his mercy upon them.

Footnotes

• [a]. LXXb adds but the death of any one of them cannot be calculated by anyone.