Sirach 41:4
Good News Translation
The Lord has decreed it for every living creature. Who are you to object to what the Most High wishes? In the world of the dead no one will care whether you lived ten years, a hundred, or a thousand.

New Revised Standard Version
This is the Lord’s decree for all flesh; why then should you reject the will of the Most High? Whether life lasts for ten years or a hundred or a thousand, there are no questions asked in Hades.

Contemporary English Version
because the Lord has commanded that life ends with death, and we all must obey. No one in the world of the dead will ask how long you lived, whether it was ten, a hundred, or a thousand years.

New American Bible
This decree for all flesh is from God; why then should you reject a law of the Most High? Whether one has lived a thousand years, a hundred, or ten, in Sheol there are no arguments about life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who is in a decrepit age, and that is in care about all things, and to the distrustful that loseth patience!

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Who is in a decrepit age, and that is in care about all things, and to the distrustful that loseth patience!

Sirach 41:2
To a man that is at rest, and whose ways are prosperous in all things, and that is yet able to take meat!

Sirach 41:3
O death thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and to him whose strength faileth:

Sirach 41:5
Fear not the sentence of death. Remember what things have been before thee, and what shall come after thee: this sentence is from the Lord upon all flesh.

Sirach 41:6
And what shall come upon thee by the good pleasure of the most High? whether ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years.

Context
Sirach 41
3O death thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and to him whose strength faileth: 4Who is in a decrepit age, and that is in care about all things, and to the distrustful that loseth patience! 5Fear not the sentence of death. Remember what things have been before thee, and what shall come after thee: this sentence is from the Lord upon all flesh.…
Cross References
Sirach 41:2
To a man that is at rest, and whose ways are prosperous in all things, and that is yet able to take meat!

Sirach 41:3
O death thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and to him whose strength faileth:

Sirach 41:5
Fear not the sentence of death. Remember what things have been before thee, and what shall come after thee: this sentence is from the Lord upon all flesh.

Sirach 41:6
And what shall come upon thee by the good pleasure of the most High? whether ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 41:3
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