Good News Translation
When we come to the end of that story, we have not even begun; we are simply at a loss for words.

New Revised Standard Version
When human beings have finished, they are just beginning, and when they stop, they are still perplexed.

Contemporary English Version
and at the end of a lifetime of studying them, we are still confused.

New American Bible
When mortals finish, they are only beginning, and when they stop they are still bewildered.

Douay-Rheims Bible
What is man, and what is his grace? and what is his good, or what is his evil?

What is man, and what is his grace? and what is his good, or what is his evil?

Sirach 18:5
Nothing may be taken away, nor added, neither is it possible to find out the glorious works of God.

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

Sirach 18:8
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 18:9
Therefore God is patient in them, and poureth forth his mercy upon them.