Sirach 44:9
Good News Translation
There are others who are not remembered, as if they had never lived, who died and were forgotten, they, and their children after them.

New Revised Standard Version
But of others there is no memory; they have perished as though they had never existed; they have become as though they had never been born, they and their children after them.

Contemporary English Version
Others of our people are best forgotten, as if they and their descendants had never been born.

New American Bible
Of others no memory remains, for when they perished, they perished, As if they had never lived, they and their children after them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there are some, of whom there is no memorial: who are perished, as if they had never been: and are become as if they had never been born, and their children with them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And there are some, of whom there is no memorial: who are perished, as if they had never been: and are become as if they had never been born, and their children with them.

Sirach 44:7
All these have gained glory in their generations, and were praised in their days.

Sirach 44:8
They that were born of them have left a name behind them, that their praises might be related:

Sirach 44:10
But these were men of mercy, whose godly deeds have not failed:

Sirach 44:11
Good things continue with their seed,

Context
Sirach 44
8They that were born of them have left a name behind them, that their praises might be related: 9And there are some, of whom there is no memorial: who are perished, as if they had never been: and are become as if they had never been born, and their children with them. 10But these were men of mercy, whose godly deeds have not failed:…
Cross References
Sirach 44:7
All these have gained glory in their generations, and were praised in their days.

Sirach 44:8
They that were born of them have left a name behind them, that their praises might be related:

Sirach 44:10
But these were men of mercy, whose godly deeds have not failed:

Sirach 44:11
Good things continue with their seed,



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 44:8
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