Ecclesiasticus 38:19
For of sadness cometh death, and it overwhelmeth the strength, and the sorrow of the heart boweth down the neck.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- a tristitia enim festinat mors, et cooperit virtutem, et tristitia cordis flectit cervicem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
Haydock's commentary
And the, &c., is not in Greek. Excessive sorrow brings on sickness, and renders us unfit for any thing.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.