Verse (Click for Chapter) 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 Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Who is in a decrepit age, and that is in care about all things, and to the distrustful that loseth patience! Sirach 41:2To 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. |