Sirach 30:17-19

Wycliffe Bible

¹⁷ Better is death than bitter life, and everlasting rest is better than sickness dwelling continually. [Better is death than bitter life, and everlasting rest than (en)during sickness.]

¹⁸ Goods hid in a closed mouth be as settings forth of meats set about a sepulchre. [Goods hid in a mouth closed, as layings-to of plenteous meats, set about to a sepulchre.]

¹⁹ What shall sacrifice profit to an idol? [or What shall profit sacrifice to the maumet?] for why it shall not eat, neither shall smell. So he that is driven away from the Lord,