Sirach 40:2
Good News Translation
We are confused and fearful, dreading the day of our death--

New Revised Standard Version
Perplexities and fear of heart are theirs, and anxious thought of the day of their death.

Contemporary English Version
We don't understand life, so we worry and dread the day that it will end. *

New American Bible
Troubled thoughts and fear of heart are theirs and anxious foreboding until death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Their thoughts, and fears of the heart, their imagination of things to come, and the day of their end:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Their thoughts, and fears of the heart, their imagination of things to come, and the day of their end:

Sirach 39:41
Now therefore with the whole heart and mouth praise ye him, and bless the name of the Lord.

Sirach 40:1
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 40:3
From him that sitteth on a glorious throne, unto him that is humbled in earth and ashes:

Sirach 40:4
From him that weareth purple, and beareth the crown, even to him that is covered with rough linen: wrath, envy, trouble, unquietness, and the fear of death, continual anger, and strife,

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: 3From him that sitteth on a glorious throne, unto him that is humbled in earth and ashes:…
Cross References
Sirach 39:41
Now therefore with the whole heart and mouth praise ye him, and bless the name of the Lord.

Sirach 40:1
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 40:3
From him that sitteth on a glorious throne, unto him that is humbled in earth and ashes:

Sirach 40:4
From him that weareth purple, and beareth the crown, even to him that is covered with rough linen: wrath, envy, trouble, unquietness, and the fear of death, continual anger, and strife,



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 40:1
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