Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation All through our lives we meet anger, jealousy, and trouble. Things disturb us; we live with furious conflicts and with the fear of death. Even when we go to bed, we think up new troubles in our sleep. Contemporary English Version Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And in the time of rest upon his bed, the sleep of the night changeth his knowledge. Sirach 40:3From 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, Sirach 40:6 A little and as nothing is his rest, and afterward in sleep, as in the day of keeping watch. Sirach 40:7 He is troubled in the vision of his heart, as if he had escaped in the day of battle. In the time of his safety he rose up, and wondereth that there is no fear. Context Sirach 40…4From 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, 5And in the time of rest upon his bed, the sleep of the night changeth his knowledge. 6A little and as nothing is his rest, and afterward in sleep, as in the day of keeping watch.… Cross References 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, Sirach 40:6 A little and as nothing is his rest, and afterward in sleep, as in the day of keeping watch. Sirach 40:7 He is troubled in the vision of his heart, as if he had escaped in the day of battle. In the time of his safety he rose up, and wondereth that there is no fear. |
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