Sirach 30:17-19

Good News Translation

¹⁷ It would be better to be dead, asleep forever, than to live in the misery of chronic illness. ¹⁸ The finest food means nothing if you are too sick to eat it; it might as well be offered to an idol.^{[a] 19} But there is no point in offering food to an idol; it can't eat it or smell it. It is just the same with someone whom the Lord has afflicted.