Sirach 11:27
Good News Translation
At that time our deeds are open for all to see; all our happiness can be erased in that one moment of misery.

New Revised Standard Version
An hour’s misery makes one forget past delights, and at the close of one’s life one’s deeds are revealed.

Contemporary English Version
Pleasant memories fade after an hour of pain, but the way that you lived is made clear by how you die

New American Bible
A time of affliction brings forgetfulness of past delights; at the end of life one’s deeds are revealed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the day of good things be not unmindful of evils: and in the day of evils be not unmindful of good things:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Sirach 11:25
Say not: What need I, and what good shall I have by this?

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

Sirach 11:28
For it is easy before God in the day of death to reward every one according to his ways.

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.

Context
Sirach 11
26Say not: I am sufficient for myself: and what shall I be made worse by this? 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.…
Cross References
Sirach 11:25
Say not: What need I, and what good shall I have by this?

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

Sirach 11:28
For it is easy before God in the day of death to reward every one according to his ways.

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.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 11:26
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