Sirach 30:16-18

Good News Translation

¹⁶ Nothing can make you richer or give you greater happiness than those two things. ¹⁷ It would be better to be dead, asleep forever, than to live in the misery of chronic illness. ¹⁸ The finest food means nothing if you are too sick to eat it; it might as well be offered to an idol.^[a]