Sirach 22:12
Good News Translation
For seven days we mourn the dead, but a foolish or ungodly person causes a lifetime of grief.

New Revised Standard Version
Mourning for the dead lasts seven days, but for the foolish or the ungodly it lasts all the days of their lives.

Contemporary English Version
After a death, you mourn seven days, but you mourn for ungodly fools until the day they die.

New American Bible
Mourning for the dead, seven days— but for the wicked fool, a whole lifetime.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the wicked life of a wicked fool is worse than death.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the wicked life of a wicked fool is worse than death.

Sirach 22:10
Weep for the dead, for his light hath failed: and weep for the fool, for his understanding faileth.

Sirach 22:11
Weep but a little for the dead, for he is at rest.

Sirach 22:13
The mourning for the dead is seven days: but for a fool and an ungodly man all the days of their life.

Sirach 22:14
Talk not much with a fool and go not with him that hath no sense.

Context
Sirach 22
11Weep but a little for the dead, for he is at rest. 12For the wicked life of a wicked fool is worse than death. 13The mourning for the dead is seven days: but for a fool and an ungodly man all the days of their life.…
Cross References
Sirach 22:10
Weep for the dead, for his light hath failed: and weep for the fool, for his understanding faileth.

Sirach 22:11
Weep but a little for the dead, for he is at rest.

Sirach 22:13
The mourning for the dead is seven days: but for a fool and an ungodly man all the days of their life.

Sirach 22:14
Talk not much with a fool and go not with him that hath no sense.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 22:11
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