Sirach 41:1-3

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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

² To a man that is at rest, and whose ways are prosperous in all things, and that is yet able to take meat!

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