Sirach 38:20
Good News Translation
Don't lose yourself in sorrow; drive it away. Remember that we must all die sometime.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not give your heart to grief; drive it away, and remember your own end.

Contemporary English Version
Put away your grief and enjoy what is left of your own life.

New American Bible
Do not turn your thoughts to him again; cease to recall him; think rather of the end.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In withdrawing aside sorrow remaineth: and the substance of the poor is according to his heart.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In withdrawing aside sorrow remaineth: and the substance of the poor is according to his heart.

Sirach 38:18
And make mourning for him according to his merit for a day, or two, for fear of detraction.

Sirach 38:19
For of sadness cometh death, and it overwhelmeth the strength, and the sorrow of the heart boweth down the neck.

Sirach 38:21
Give not up thy heart to sadness, but drive it from thee: and remember the latter end.

Sirach 38:22
Forget it not: for there is no returning, and thou shalt do him no good, and shalt hurt thyself.

Context
Sirach 38
19For of sadness cometh death, and it overwhelmeth the strength, and the sorrow of the heart boweth down the neck. 20In withdrawing aside sorrow remaineth: and the substance of the poor is according to his heart. 21Give not up thy heart to sadness, but drive it from thee: and remember the latter end.…
Cross References
Sirach 38:18
And make mourning for him according to his merit for a day, or two, for fear of detraction.

Sirach 38:19
For of sadness cometh death, and it overwhelmeth the strength, and the sorrow of the heart boweth down the neck.

Sirach 38:21
Give not up thy heart to sadness, but drive it from thee: and remember the latter end.

Sirach 38:22
Forget it not: for there is no returning, and thou shalt do him no good, and shalt hurt thyself.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 38:19
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