Good News Translation
A person's body amounts to nothing, but a good reputation will last forever.

New Revised Standard Version
The human body is a fleeting thing, but a virtuous name will never be blotted out.

Contemporary English Version
When someone dies, we usually mourn, but everyone tries to forget those who were evil.

New American Bible
The human body is a fleeting thing, but a virtuous name will never be annihilated.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the most high Lord.

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

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

Sirach 41:10
The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his sake they are in reproach.

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

Sirach 41:13
All things that are of the earth, shall return into the earth: so the ungodly shall from malediction to destruction.