15 For good labors have fruit of great renown. The root of understanding can’t fail. (WEB) 16 But children of adulterers will not come to maturity. The seed of an unlawful union will vanish away. (WEB) 17 For if they live long, they will not be esteemed, and in the end, their old age will be without honor. (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 3:15–17
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Wisdom of Solomon 4:2–4
2 When it is present, people imitate it. They long after it when it has departed. Throughout all time it marches, crowned in triumph, victorious in the competition for the prizes that are undefiled. (WEB) 3 But the multiplying brood of the ungodly will be of no profit,… (WEB) 4 … (WEB)
Sirach 41:5–7
5 The children of sinners are abominable children and they frequent the dwellings of the ungodly. (WEB) 6 The inheritance of sinners’ children will perish and with their posterity will be a perpetual disgrace. (WEB) 7 Children will complain of an ungodly father, because they suf… (WEB)
Psalms of Solomon 15:10–12
10 And the inheritance of sinners is destruction and darkness, And their iniquities shall pursue them unto Sheol beneath. (PSS) 11 Their inheritance shall not be found of their children, For sins shall lay waste the houses of sinners. (PSS) 12 And sinners shall perish for ever in t… (PSS)
Sirach 40:14–16
14 In opening his hands, a man will be made glad; so lawbreakers will utterly fail. (WEB) 15 The children of the ungodly won’t grow many branches, and are as unhealthy roots on a sheer rock. (WEB) 16 The reeds by every water or river bank will be plucked up before all grass. (WEB)
Sirach 44:12–14
12 Their offspring stand fast, with their children, for their sakes. (WEB) 13 Their offspring will remain forever. Their glory won’t be blotted out. (WEB) 14 Their bodies were buried in peace. Their name lives to all generations. (WEB)
Job 36:13–15
13 The godless in heart harbor resentment; even when He binds them, they do not cry for help. 14 They die in their youth, among the male shrine prostitutes. 15 God rescues the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ears in oppression.
Job 15:31–33
31 Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward. 32 It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish. 33 He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
2 Clement 20:2–4
2 Let us then have faith, brothers and sisters. We are trained by the present life, that we may be crowned with the future. (2CL) 3 No righteous man hath reaped fruit quickly but waiteth for it. (2CL) 4 For if God had paid the recompense of the righteous speedily, then straightw… (2CL)
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