Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Death! Its sentence is welcome to someone living in poverty, with failing health, very old, burdened with worries, blind, and without hope. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge To a man that is at rest, and whose ways are prosperous in all things, and that is yet able to take meat! Sirach 40:32Begging will be sweet in the mouth of the unwise, but in his belly there shall burn a fire. Sirach 41:1 O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions! Sirach 41:3 O death thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and to him whose strength faileth: Sirach 41:4 Who is in a decrepit age, and that is in care about all things, and to the distrustful that loseth patience! Context Sirach 41…1O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions! 2To a man that is at rest, and whose ways are prosperous in all things, and that is yet able to take meat! 3O death thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and to him whose strength faileth:… Cross References Sirach 40:32 Begging will be sweet in the mouth of the unwise, but in his belly there shall burn a fire. Sirach 41:1 O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions! Sirach 41:3 O death thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and to him whose strength faileth: Sirach 41:4 Who is in a decrepit age, and that is in care about all things, and to the distrustful that loseth patience! |