Sirach 41:10
Good News Translation
What comes into being from nothing will return to nothing; so it will be with the godless, doomed to extinction.

New Revised Standard Version
Whatever comes from earth returns to earth; so the ungodly go from curse to destruction.

Contemporary English Version
All living creatures will return to the soil from which they were made, but sinners are under a curse and will be destroyed.

New American Bible
All that is nought returns to nought, so too the godless—from void to void.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his sake they are in reproach.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his sake they are in reproach.

Sirach 41:8
The children of sinners become children of abominations, and they that converse near the houses of the ungodly.

Sirach 41:9
The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach.

Sirach 41:11
Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the most high Lord.

Sirach 41:12
And if you be born, you shall be born in malediction: and if you die, in malediction shall be your portion.

Context
Sirach 41
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.…
Cross References
Sirach 41:8
The children of sinners become children of abominations, and they that converse near the houses of the ungodly.

Sirach 41:9
The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach.

Sirach 41:11
Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the most high Lord.

Sirach 41:12
And if you be born, you shall be born in malediction: and if you die, in malediction shall be your portion.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 41:9
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