Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation It would be better to be dead, asleep forever, than to live in the misery of chronic illness. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Better is death than a bitter life, and everlasting rest, than continual sickness. Sirach 30:15Health of the soul in holiness of justice, is better than all gold and silver: and a sound body, than immense revenues. Sirach 30:16 There is no riches above the riches of the health of the body: and there is no pleasure above the joy of the heart. Sirach 30:18 Good things that are hidden in a mouth that is shut, are as messes of meat set about a grave. Sirach 30:19 What good shall an offering do to an idol? for it can neither eat, nor smell: Context Sirach 30…16There is no riches above the riches of the health of the body: and there is no pleasure above the joy of the heart. 17Better is death than a bitter life, and everlasting rest, than continual sickness. 18Good things that are hidden in a mouth that is shut, are as messes of meat set about a grave.… Cross References Sirach 30:15 Health of the soul in holiness of justice, is better than all gold and silver: and a sound body, than immense revenues. Sirach 30:16 There is no riches above the riches of the health of the body: and there is no pleasure above the joy of the heart. Sirach 30:18 Good things that are hidden in a mouth that is shut, are as messes of meat set about a grave. Sirach 30:19 What good shall an offering do to an idol? for it can neither eat, nor smell: |
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