Wisdom 3:15-17

Good News Translation

¹⁵ Honest deeds are like a tree that bears marvelous fruit. Wisdom is like a root that is alive and can always send up new shoots.

¹⁶ But children born of adultery or of a forbidden union will die an early death. ¹⁷ Yet even if they do live a long time, they will never amount to anything. They will not be respected in their old age,