Good News Translation
Virtue provides an example for people to follow; when it is not there, they miss it. It has always been the finest prize a person can win, and it always will be so. It is the noblest of all the good qualities a person can have.

New Revised Standard Version
When it is present, people imitate it, and they long for it when it has gone; throughout all time it marches, crowned in triumph, victor in the contest for prizes that are undefiled.

Contemporary English Version
People imitate goodness, and they miss it when it is gone. Goodness always triumphs; it receives the highest honors because it is unselfish.

New American Bible
When it is present people imitate it, and they long for it when it is gone; Forever it marches crowned in triumph, victorious in unsullied deeds of valor.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When it is present, they imitate it: and they desire it, when it hath withdrawn itself, and it triumpheth crowned for ever, winning the reward of undefiled conflicts.

When it is present, they imitate it: and they desire it, when it hath withdrawn itself, and it triumpheth crowned for ever, winning the reward of undefiled conflicts.

Wisdom 3:19
For dreadful are the ends of a wicked race.

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 4:3
But the multiplied brood of the wicked shall not thrive, and bastard slips shall not take deep root, nor any fast foundation.

Wisdom 4:4
And if they flourish in branches for a time, yet standing not fast, they shall be shaken with the wind, and through the force of winds they shall be rooted out.