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If you have children, calamity will be theirs;
    you will beget them only for groaning.
When you stumble, there is lasting joy;[a]
    and when you die, a curse is your lot.
10 Whatever comes from earth returns to earth;
    so the ungodly go from curse to destruction.

11 The human body is a fleeting thing,
    but a virtuous name will never be blotted out.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 41:9 Heb: Meaning of Gk uncertain
  2. Sirach 41:11 Heb: Gk People grieve over the death of the body, but the bad name of sinners will be blotted out

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