Rejoice not in ungodly children, if they be multiplied: neither be delighted in them, if the fear of God be not with them. 2Trust not to their life, and respect not their labours. 3For better is one that feareth God, than a thousand ungodly children. 4And it is better to die without children, than to leave ungodly children. 5By one that is wise a country shall be inhabited, the tribe of the ungodly shall become desolate. 6Many such things hath my eyes seen, and greater things than these my ear hath heard. 7In the congregation of sinners a fire shall be kindled, and in an unbelieving nation wrath shall flame out. 8The ancient giants did not obtain pardon for their sins, who were destroyed trusting to their own strength: 9And he spared not the place where Lot sojourned, but abhorred them for the pride of their word. 10He had not pity on them, destroying the whole nation that extolled themselves in their sins. 11So did he with the six hundred thousand footmen, who were gathered together in the hardness of their heart: and if one had been stiffnecked, it is a wonder if he had escaped unpunished: 12For mercy and wrath are with him. He is mighty to forgive, and to pour out indignation: 13According as his mercy is, so his correction judgeth a man according to his works. 14The sinner shall not escape in his rapines, and the patience of him that sheweth mercy shall not be put off. 15All mercy shall make a place for every man according to the merit of his works, and according to the wisdom of his sojournment. 16Say not: I shall be hidden from God, and who shall remember me from on high?