Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation When you have children, disaster will strike them and you will be left with nothing but sorrow. There will be great joy whenever you stumble, and even after your death you will be cursed. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach. Sirach 41:7For among the dead there is no accusing of life. Sirach 41:8 The children of sinners become children of abominations, and they that converse near the houses of the ungodly. Sirach 41:10 The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his sake they are in reproach. Sirach 41:11 Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the most high Lord. Context Sirach 41…8The children of sinners become children of abominations, and they that converse near the houses of the ungodly. 9The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach. 10The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his sake they are in reproach.… Cross References Sirach 41:7 For among the dead there is no accusing of life. Sirach 41:8 The children of sinners become children of abominations, and they that converse near the houses of the ungodly. Sirach 41:10 The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his sake they are in reproach. Sirach 41:11 Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the most high Lord. |