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.
10 Like a drop of water from the seaor a grain of sand,so are a few years in the span of eternity.
11 Therefore, the Lord was patientwith them,and he poured out his mercy upon them.
12 He saw and knew that their endwas terrible;therefore, his willingness to be reconciled increased.