Sirach 40:2

2 Anxious expectation—the day of death— fills their inner musings and plants fear in their hearts.

Sirach 40:2 In-Context

1 Hard work was created for every person, and a heavy yoke lies upon human beings, from the day when they leave their mother's womb until the day when they return to the mother of all.

2 Anxious expectation—the day of death— fills their inner musings and plants fear in their hearts.

3 From the person who sits upon a glorious throne down to the person brought low in dust and ashes,

4 from the person who wears purple and a crown down to the person dressed in rough linen—

5 there exists anger, envy, confusion, unrest, fear of death, fury, and conflict. Even when they rest in bed, nighttime dreams disturb their mind.

Footnotes

• [a] Gk uncertain