Sirach 41:9
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
If you have children, calamity will be theirs; you will beget them only for groaning. When you stumble, there is lasting joy; and when you die, a curse is your lot.

Contemporary English Version
They will groan as disaster strikes their children, and at the death of the godless, God's people will celebrate and will curse them.

New American Bible
If you have children, calamity will be theirs; and if you beget them, it will be only for groaning. When you stumble, there is lasting joy; and when you die, you become a curse.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach.

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.

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.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 41:8
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