21
While you are still alive and have breath in you, do not let anyone take your place.
22
For it is better that your children should ask from you than that you should look to the hand of your children.
23
Excel in all that you do; bring no stain upon your honor.
24
At the time when you end the days of your life, in the hour of death, distribute your inheritance.
25
Fodder and a stick and burdens for a donkey; bread and discipline and work for a slave.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.