Good News Translation
He gave them only a limited time to live, but he gave them authority over everything on earth.

New Revised Standard Version
He gave them a fixed number of days, but granted them authority over everything on the earth.

Contemporary English Version
Our lives are short, but the Lord has given us power to rule the earth.

New American Bible
A limited number of days he gave them, but granted them authority over everything on earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he turned him into it again, and clothed him with strength according to himself.

And he turned him into it again, and clothed him with strength according to himself.

Sirach 16:31
The soul of every living thing hath shewn forth before the face thereof, and into it they return again.

Sirach 17:1
God created man of the earth, and made him after his own image.

Sirach 17:3
He gave him the number of his days and time, and gave him power over all things that are upon the earth.

Sirach 17:4
He put the fear of him upon all flesh, and he had dominion over beasts and fowls.