Sirach 11:28
Good News Translation
So then, don't think of anyone's life as happy until it is over, because all the evidence is not in until the person is dead.

New Revised Standard Version
Call no one happy before his death; by how he ends, a person becomes known.

Contemporary English Version
and by what kind of children you leave behind. So don't praise anyone until they are dead.

New American Bible
Call none happy before death, for how they end, they are known.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For it is easy before God in the day of death to reward every one according to his ways.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For it is easy before God in the day of death to reward every one according to his ways.

Sirach 11:26
Say not: I am sufficient for myself: and what shall I be made worse by this?

Sirach 11:27
In the day of good things be not unmindful of evils: and in the day of evils be not unmindful of good things:

Sirach 11:29
The affliction of an hour maketh one forget great delights, and in the end of a man is the disclosing of his works.

Sirach 11:30
Praise not any man before death, for a man is known by his children.

Context
Sirach 11
27In the day of good things be not unmindful of evils: and in the day of evils be not unmindful of good things: 28For it is easy before God in the day of death to reward every one according to his ways. 29The affliction of an hour maketh one forget great delights, and in the end of a man is the disclosing of his works.…
Cross References
Sirach 11:26
Say not: I am sufficient for myself: and what shall I be made worse by this?

Sirach 11:27
In the day of good things be not unmindful of evils: and in the day of evils be not unmindful of good things:

Sirach 11:29
The affliction of an hour maketh one forget great delights, and in the end of a man is the disclosing of his works.

Sirach 11:30
Praise not any man before death, for a man is known by his children.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 11:27
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