Sirach 41:5–13

Fear not the sentence of death. Remember what things have been before thee, and what shall come after thee: this sentence is from the Lord upon all flesh. 6And what shall come upon thee by the good pleasure of the most High? whether ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years. 7For among the dead there is no accusing of life. 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. 11Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the most high Lord. 12And if you be born, you shall be born in malediction: and if you die, in malediction shall be your portion. 13All things that are of the earth, shall return into the earth: so the ungodly shall from malediction to destruction.