Sirach 41:2
Good News Translation
Death! Its sentence is welcome to someone living in poverty, with failing health, very old, burdened with worries, blind, and without hope.

New Revised Standard Version
O death, how welcome is your sentence to one who is needy and failing in strength, worn down by age and anxious about everything; to one who is contrary, and has lost all patience!

Contemporary English Version
But others would rather die because they are poor and sick, old and worn out. They are grumpy and impatient, always finding something to worry about.

New American Bible
O death! How welcome is your sentence to the weak, failing in strength, Stumbling and tripping on everything, with sight gone and hope lost.

Douay-Rheims Bible
To a man that is at rest, and whose ways are prosperous in all things, and that is yet able to take meat!

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To a man that is at rest, and whose ways are prosperous in all things, and that is yet able to take meat!

Sirach 40:32
Begging will be sweet in the mouth of the unwise, but in his belly there shall burn a fire.

Sirach 41:1
O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions!

Sirach 41:3
O death thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and to him whose strength faileth:

Sirach 41:4
Who is in a decrepit age, and that is in care about all things, and to the distrustful that loseth patience!

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! 3O death thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and to him whose strength faileth:…
Cross References
Sirach 40:32
Begging will be sweet in the mouth of the unwise, but in his belly there shall burn a fire.

Sirach 41:1
O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions!

Sirach 41:3
O death thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and to him whose strength faileth:

Sirach 41:4
Who is in a decrepit age, and that is in care about all things, and to the distrustful that loseth patience!



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 41:1
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