Sirach 18:8
Good News Translation
What are human beings? Of what use are we? The good that we do--the evil that we do--what does it all mean?

New Revised Standard Version
What are human beings, and of what use are they? What is good in them, and what is evil?

Contemporary English Version
As for us humans, what are we? Do we have any purpose? What is good for us and what is bad?

New American Bible
What are mortals? What are they worth? What is good in them, and what is evil?

Douay-Rheims Bible
The number of the days of men at the most are a hundred years, as a drop of water of the sea are they esteemed: and as a pebble of the sand, so are a few years compared to eternity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The number of the days of men at the most are a hundred years, as a drop of water of the sea are they esteemed: and as a pebble of the sand, so are a few years compared to eternity.

Sirach 18:6
When a man hath done, then shall he begin: and when he leaveth off, he shall be at a loss.

Sirach 18:7
What is man, and what is his grace? and what is his good, or what is his evil?

Sirach 18:9
Therefore God is patient in them, and poureth forth his mercy upon them.

Sirach 18:10
He hath seen the presumption of their heart that it is wicked, and hath known their end that it is evil.

Context
Sirach 18
7What is man, and what is his grace? and what is his good, or what is his evil? 8The number of the days of men at the most are a hundred years, as a drop of water of the sea are they esteemed: and as a pebble of the sand, so are a few years compared to eternity. 9Therefore God is patient in them, and poureth forth his mercy upon them.…
Cross References
Sirach 18:6
When a man hath done, then shall he begin: and when he leaveth off, he shall be at a loss.

Sirach 18:7
What is man, and what is his grace? and what is his good, or what is his evil?

Sirach 18:9
Therefore God is patient in them, and poureth forth his mercy upon them.

Sirach 18:10
He hath seen the presumption of their heart that it is wicked, and hath known their end that it is evil.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

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