Good News Translation
Children born of a forbidden union suffer a miserable fate.

New Revised Standard Version
For the end of an unrighteous generation is grievous.

Contemporary English Version
because misery is the reward for doing evil.

New American Bible
for dire is the end of the wicked generation.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For dreadful are the ends of a wicked race.

For dreadful are the ends of a wicked race.

Wisdom 3:17
And if they live long, they shall be nothing regarded, and their last old age shall be without honour.

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

Wisdom 4:1
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 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When it is present, they imitate it: and they desire it, when it hath withdrawn itself, and it triumpheth crowned for ever, winning the reward of undefiled conflicts.