Common English Bible

Sirach 18:5-9 Common English Bible (CEB)

5. Who will measurethe power of his greatness?Who will continue to recount his mercy?

6. It’s impossible to diminishor to increase these things,and it’s impossibleto search out the wonders of the Lord.

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 lifeis as much as one hundred years.