New Revised Standard Version
A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death, than the day of birth.

Contemporary English Version
A good reputation at the time of death is better than loving care at the time of birth.

New American Bible
A good name is better than good ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

A good name is better than precious ointments: and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

name

Proverbs 15:30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the soul: a good name maketh the bones fat.

Proverbs 22:1 A good name is better than great riches: and good favour is above silver and gold.

Isaiah 56:5 I will give to them in my house, and within my walls, a place, and a name better than sons and daughters: I will give them an everlasting name which shall never perish.

Luke 10:20 But yet rejoice not in this, that spirits are subject unto you: but rejoice in this, that your names are written in heaven.

Hebrews 11:2,39 For by this the ancients obtained a testimony. . . .

precious

Ecclesiastes 10:1 Dying flies spoil the sweetness of the ointment. Wisdom and glory is more precious than a small and shortlived folly.

Psalm 133:2 Like the precious ointment on the head, that ran down upon the beard, the beard of Aaron, Which ran down to the skirt of his garment:

Proverbs 27:9 Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart: and the good counsels of a friend are sweet to the soul.

Songs 1:3 Draw me: we will run after thee to the odour of thy ointments. The king hath brought me into his storerooms: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, remembering thy breasts more than wine: the rightous love thee.

Songs 4:10 How beautiful are thy breasts, my sister, my spouse! thy breasts are more beautiful than wine, and the sweet smell of thy ointments above all aromatical spices.

John 13:2 And when supper was done (the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him),

the day

Ecclesiastes 4:2 And I praised the dead rather than the living:

Job 3:17 There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.

Isaiah 57:1,2 The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil. . . .

2 Corinthians 5:1,8 For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven. . . .

Philippians 1:21-23 For to me, to live is Christ: and to die is gain. . . .

Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me: Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. From henceforth now, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours. For their works follow them.