Good News Translation
No matter how many children are born of a forbidden union, none of them will ever amount to anything. They are illegitimate; they can never lay a firm foundation for themselves, never take deep root.

Contemporary English Version
But all of the many children born to sinners will be useless and helpless like trees without roots.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the multiplied brood of the wicked shall not thrive, and bastard slips shall not take deep root, nor any fast foundation.

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

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When it is present, they imitate it: and they desire it, when it hath withdrawn itself, and it triumpheth crowned for ever, winning the reward of undefiled conflicts.

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.

Wisdom 4:5
For the branches not being perfect, shall be broken, and their fruits shall be unprofitable, and sour to eat, and fit for nothing.