Sirach 11:26-28

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁶ For it is easy for the Lord on the day of death
    to reward individuals according to their conduct.
²⁷ An hour’s misery makes one forget past delights,
    and at the close of one’s life one’s deeds are revealed.
²⁸ Call no one happy before his death;
    by how he ends, a person becomes known.^[a]