Good News Translation
It is better to have virtue, even if it means having no children. Your virtue will be recognized by other people and by God, and you will be remembered for it forever.

New Revised Standard Version
Better than this is childlessness with virtue, for in the memory of virtue is immortality, because it is known both by God and by mortals.

Contemporary English Version
Living right is better than having children-- both God and people will always remember you and the good you have done.

New American Bible
Better is childlessness with virtue; for immortal is the memory of virtue, acknowledged both by God and human beings.

Douay-Rheims Bible
How beautiful is the chaste generation with glory: for the memory thereof is immortal: because it is known both with God and with men.

How beautiful is the chaste generation with glory: for the memory thereof is immortal: because it is known both with God and with men.

Wisdom 3:18
And if they die quickly, they shall have no hope, nor speech of comfort in the day of trial.

Wisdom 3:19
For dreadful are the ends of a wicked race.

Wisdom 4:2
When it is present, they imitate it: and they desire it, when it hath withdrawn itself, and it triumpheth crowned for ever, winning the reward of undefiled conflicts.

Wisdom 4:3
But the multiplied brood of the wicked shall not thrive, and bastard slips shall not take deep root, nor any fast foundation.