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Read›Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)›Chapter 30
In 4 translations
- KJV
- Death is better than a bitter life or continual sickness.
- WEB
- Death is better than a bitter life, and eternal rest than a continual sickness.
- DRC
- Better is death than a bitter life: and everlasting rest, than continual sickness.
- LXXE
- Death is better than a bitter life or continual sickness.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Κρείσσων θάνατος ὑπὲρ ζωὴν πικρὰν, ἢ ἀῤῥώστημα ἔμμονον.