Other translations
New Catholic Bible
Death is better than a life of misery, and eternal rest is preferable to chronic illness.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Death is better than a life of misery, and eternal sleep than chronic sickness.
Good News Translation®
It would be better to be dead, asleep forever, than to live in the misery of chronic illness.
Wycliffe Bible
Better is death than bitter life, and everlasting rest is better than sickness dwelling continually. [Better is death than bitter life, and everlasting rest than (en)during sickness.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Death is better than a miserable life, and eternal rest than chronic sickness.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Death is better than a life of misery and eternal sleep than chronic sickness.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Death is better than a life of misery, and eternal sleep than chronic sickness.
Common English Bible © 2011
Death is better than a bitter life, and eternal rest is better than chronic illness.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Better is death than a wretched life, everlasting sleep than constant illness.
Revised Standard Version
Death is better than a miserable life, and eternal rest than chronic sickness.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Death is better than a life of misery, and eternal sleep than chronic sickness.