Ben Sira 41:3-13

3 Do not fear the sentence of death; remember your former days and the end of life; this is the decree from the Lord for all flesh,
4 and how can you reject the good pleasure of the Most High? Whether life is for ten or a hundred or a thousand years, there is no inquiry about it in Hades.
5 The children of sinners are abominable children, and they frequent the haunts of the ungodly.
6 The inheritance of the children of sinners will perish, and on their posterity will be a perpetual reproach.
7 Children will blame an ungodly father, for they suffer reproach because of him.
8 Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the Most High God!
9 When you are born, you are born to a curse; and when you die, a curse is your lot.
10 Whatever is from the dust returns to dust; so the ungodly go from curse to destruction.
11 The mourning of men is about their bodies, but the evil name of sinners will be blotted out.
12 Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a thousand great stores of gold.
13 The days of a good life are numbered, but a good name endures for ever.
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