Sirach 30:18-20

Good News Translation

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. ²⁰ He looks at his food and sighs, like a castrated man hugging a young woman.