4 Maccabees 18:9

9 In the time of my maturity I remained with my husband, and when these sons had grown up their father died. A happy man was he, who lived out his life with good children, and did not have the grief of bereavement.

4 Maccabees 18:9 In-Context

7 "I was a pure virgin and did not go outside my father's house; but I guarded the rib from which woman was made.

8 No seducer corrupted me on a desert plain, nor did the destroyer, the deceitful serpent, defile the purity of my virginity.

9 In the time of my maturity I remained with my husband, and when these sons had grown up their father died. A happy man was he, who lived out his life with good children, and did not have the grief of bereavement.

10 While he was still with you, he taught you the law and the prophets.

11 He read to you about Abel slain by Cain, and Isaac who was offered as a burnt offering, and about Joseph in prison.