Ben Sira 41:4

4 The Lord has decreed it for every living creature. Who are you to object to what the Most High wishes? In the world of the dead no one will care whether you lived ten years, a hundred, or a thousand.

Ben Sira 41:4 In-Context

2 Death! Its sentence is welcome to someone living in poverty, with failing health, very old, burdened with worries, blind, and without hope.

3 Do not be afraid of death's decree. Remember that it came to those before you and will come to those after you.

4 The Lord has decreed it for every living creature. Who are you to object to what the Most High wishes? In the world of the dead no one will care whether you lived ten years, a hundred, or a thousand.

5 The children of sinners, brought up in ungodly surroundings, turn out to be hateful people.

6 They will lose whatever they inherit, and their own descendants will live in permanent disgrace.