Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation The children of sinners, brought up in ungodly surroundings, turn out to be hateful people. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 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 41:3O 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! 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. Sirach 41:7 For among the dead there is no accusing of life. Context Sirach 41…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. 6And what shall come upon thee by the good pleasure of the most High? whether ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years.… Cross References 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! 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. Sirach 41:7 For among the dead there is no accusing of life. |