Ben Sira 44:8

8 Some of them have left behind a name, so that others declare their praise.

Ben Sira 44:8 In-Context

6 rich men endowed with resources, living peacefully in their homes—

7 all these were honored in their generations, and were the pride of their times.

8 Some of them have left behind a name, so that others declare their praise.

9 But of others there is no memory; they have perished as though they had never existed; they have become as though they had never been born, they and their children after them.

10 But these also were godly men, whose righteous deeds have not been forgotten;