Verses with the word sickness in the Apocrypha (5 verses):
Sirach 30:17
Death is better than a bitter life or continual sickness.
Sirach 31:22
My son, hear me, and despise me not, and at the last thou shalt find as I told thee: in all thy works be quick, so shall there no sickness come unto thee.
Sirach 37:30
For excess of meats bringeth sickness, and surfeiting will turn into choler.
Sirach 38:9
My son, in thy sickness be not negligent: but pray unto the Lord, and he will make thee whole.
2 Maccabees 9:22
Not distrusting mine health, but having great hope to escape this sickness.
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