Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Death! The very thought of it is bitter to someone who is prosperous, living peacefully with his possessions, free of worries, and still able to enjoy his food. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions! Sirach 40:31But a man, well instructed and taught, will look to himself. Sirach 40:32 Begging will be sweet in the mouth of the unwise, but in his belly there shall burn a fire. Sirach 41:2 To a man that is at rest, and whose ways are prosperous in all things, and that is yet able to take meat! Sirach 41:3 O death thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and to him whose strength faileth: Context Sirach 41… 1O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions! 2To a man that is at rest, and whose ways are prosperous in all things, and that is yet able to take meat!… Cross References Sirach 40:31 But a man, well instructed and taught, will look to himself. Sirach 40:32 Begging will be sweet in the mouth of the unwise, but in his belly there shall burn a fire. Sirach 41:2 To a man that is at rest, and whose ways are prosperous in all things, and that is yet able to take meat! Sirach 41:3 O death thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and to him whose strength faileth: |