Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Every person has been given a great deal of work to do. A heavy burden lies on all of us from the day of our birth until the day we go back to the earth, the mother of us all. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Great labour is created for all men, and a heavy yoke is upon the children of Adam from the day of their coming out of their mother's womb, until the day of their burial into the mother of all. Sirach 39:40It is not to be said: This is worse than that: for all shall be well approved in their time. Sirach 39:41 Now therefore with the whole heart and mouth praise ye him, and bless the name of the Lord. Sirach 40:2 Their thoughts, and fears of the heart, their imagination of things to come, and the day of their end: Sirach 40:3 From him that sitteth on a glorious throne, unto him that is humbled in earth and ashes: Context Sirach 40… 1Great labour is created for all men, and a heavy yoke is upon the children of Adam from the day of their coming out of their mother's womb, until the day of their burial into the mother of all. 2Their thoughts, and fears of the heart, their imagination of things to come, and the day of their end:… Cross References Sirach 39:40 It is not to be said: This is worse than that: for all shall be well approved in their time. Sirach 39:41 Now therefore with the whole heart and mouth praise ye him, and bless the name of the Lord. Sirach 40:2 Their thoughts, and fears of the heart, their imagination of things to come, and the day of their end: Sirach 40:3 From him that sitteth on a glorious throne, unto him that is humbled in earth and ashes: |