Ben Sira 41:6-16

6 And what shall come upon thee by the good pleasure of the most High? whether ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years.
7 For among the dead there is no accusing of life.
8 The children of sinners become children of abominations, and they that converse near the houses of the ungodly.
9 The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach.
10 The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his sake they are in reproach.
11 Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the most high Lord.
12 And if you be born, you shall be born in malediction: and if you die, in malediction shall be your portion.
13 All things that are of the earth, shall return into the earth: so the ungodly shall from malediction to destruction.
14 The mourning of men is about their body, but the name of the ungodly shall be blotted out.
15 Take care of a good name: for this shall continue with thee, more than a thousand treasures precious and great.
16 A good life hath its number of days: but a good name shall continue for ever.
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