You forgot these verses. Judas could take up all the indulgences (offerings for sin) he could manage and make all the prayers for them he wanted, and the writer could praise him for whatever he thought was good and honorable, but, in the end it is what God thinks and accepts that count, and these men died in idolatry outside of the mercy of God so Judas was doing a superstitious act since he knew or should have known that his prayers were not being heard nor could they be answered by a just God. This is probably why the book did not make the final cut.
40: Then under the tunic of every one of the dead they found sacred tokens of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids the Jews to wear. And it became clear to all that this was why these men had fallen.
41: So they all blessed the ways of the Lord, the righteous Judge, who reveals the things that are hidden;
I forgot nothing. Indeed, I read the whole passage, and have read it many times.