Sirach 40:1

Bible text

Great travail is created for every man. A heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam, from the day of their coming forth from their mother’s womb, until the day for their burial in the mother of all things.

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Numbering in the versification systems?

Bible editions number some verses differently. This verse has the following labels; labels that differ from the one shown above are marked.

Labels of this verse per verse numbering
Verse numberingLabelCoverageConfidence
Gute Nachricht Bibel 2018Sirach 40:1 whole versemedium
Lutherbibel 2017 (DBG digital edition, die-bibel.de LU17)Sirach 40:1 whole versemedium
Menge-Bibel (last text revised by Menge)Sirach 40:1 whole versemedium
Zürcher Bibel (2007)Sirach 40:1 whole versemedium
King James Version (1769) with ApocryphaSirach 40:1 whole versemedium
English Revised Version (OT 1885, NT 1881; Apocrypha 1895) (eBible.org eng-rv USFM)Sirach 40:1 whole versemedium
World English Bible (Classic, with deuterocanon) (eBible.org eng-web USFM)Sirach 40:1 whole versemedium
Wycliffe's Bible, modern spelling (Terry Noble; assumed to be Bible Hub's WYC) (eBible.org engwyc2017 USFM)Sirach 40:1 whole versemedium
Paratext German (Luther 1984 numbering; Apocrypha Luther 2017)Sirach 40:1 whole versemedium
Paratext English (eng.vrs)Sirach 40:1 whole versemedium
Paratext Septuagint (lxx.vrs)Sirach 40:1 whole versemedium
Paratext "Original" (BHS OT, UBS GNT NT; org.vrs)Sirach 40:1 anchorwhole versecertain

Sources that cite this verse?

Uses?

2 approved public uses (data: Official), newest first.

  1. Date
    Jan 1, 385 – Dec 31, 468
    Cited as
    Sirach 40:1
    Source
    Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, THE CALL OF ALL NATIONS
    Usage
    Citation
    Author
    Prosper of Aquitaine
    Denomination of the source or organisation
    Catholic
    Language
    Latin
    Venue
    Marseille
    Venue
    Rome
    Contributed by
    import-agent
  2. Date
    Jan 1, 395 – Dec 31, 454
    Cited as
    Sirach 40:1
    Source
    Historical Christian Faith: church-father quotations, THE BOOK OF PROMISES AND PREDICTIONS OF GOD
    Usage
    Citation
    Author
    Quodvultdeus
    Denomination of the source or organisation
    Catholic
    Language
    Latin
    Venue
    Carthage
    Contributed by
    import-agent
How this was computed – counting rule: Every covered verse (baseline) / Named verses only; data: Official; as of Nov 10, 2026, 9:15 PM UTC

Neutral key: nrf1:SIR.040.001

Metric
Verse-level uses: every citation adds one for each verse it covers, under the counting rule. A citation of three verses adds 3. (definition)
Counting rule
Every covered verse (baseline) The baseline rule: every mention of every verse counts; a chapter or a range counts once for each verse it covers, and an unknown repetition counts as one. (definition) – uses; references to a whole chapter count for each of its verses
Named verses only Like the baseline rule, but only references that name verses count; whole chapters and books are left out. The Top 100 verses use it, so a chapter reference does not lift every verse of the chapter. (definition) – uses naming the verse (owner decision P5); the basis of the Top 100 and of the rank
Profile
Official The official profile of every public number: only reviewed and approved entries whose evidence quality is high enough. (definition) – reviewed and approved data only
Epoch
136, published Nov 10, 2026, 9:15 PM UTC (provisional)
Sequence
Protestant canon, 66 books (KJV numbering) prot66.nrf, mapping release R9
Rank
As in the Top 100: uses naming the verse, highest first, over the verses named at least once; tied verses share a rank.
Uses
Approved public uses of the data shown, with at least one cited passage on these verses. The list follows the current approved data; the numbers are those of the epoch.

Live numbers are recomputed every 15 minutes and are provisional until a data release is frozen. The Bible text is shown for reading only; it is never counted. How we count Glossary