Sirach 48:11
Good News Translation
Fortunate are those who live to see you come, as well as those who have already died in love, for we too shall live.

New Revised Standard Version
Happy are those who saw you and were adorned with your love! For we also shall surely live.

Contemporary English Version
Those who live until he comes will be blessed by the Lord, and God's people who have died will live again.

New American Bible
Blessed is the one who shall have seen you before he dies!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed are they that saw thee, and were honoured with thy friendship.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Blessed are they that saw thee, and were honoured with thy friendship.

Sirach 48:9
Who wast taken up in a whirlwind of fire, in a chariot of fiery horses.

Sirach 48:10
Who art registered in the judgments of times to appease the wrath of the Lord, to reconcile the heart of the father to the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.

Sirach 48:12
For we live only in our life, but after death our name shall not be such.

Sirach 48:13
Elias was indeed covered with the whirlwind, and his spirit was filled up in Eliseus: in his days he feared not the prince, and no man was more powerful than he.

Context
Sirach 48
10Who art registered in the judgments of times to appease the wrath of the Lord, to reconcile the heart of the father to the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob. 11Blessed are they that saw thee, and were honoured with thy friendship. 12For we live only in our life, but after death our name shall not be such.…
Cross References
Sirach 48:9
Who wast taken up in a whirlwind of fire, in a chariot of fiery horses.

Sirach 48:10
Who art registered in the judgments of times to appease the wrath of the Lord, to reconcile the heart of the father to the son, and to restore the tribes of Jacob.

Sirach 48:12
For we live only in our life, but after death our name shall not be such.

Sirach 48:13
Elias was indeed covered with the whirlwind, and his spirit was filled up in Eliseus: in his days he feared not the prince, and no man was more powerful than he.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 48:10
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