1 You should not rejoice in impious children, if they are successful; nor should you take delight in them, if the fear of God is not in them.
2 You should not approve of their life, nor should you look with favor on their labors.
3 For one child who fears God is better than one thousand impious children.
4 And it is better to die without children, than to leave behind impious children.
5 By means one person with understanding, a country will be inhabited. The tribe of the impious will become desolate.
6 Many such things my eyes have seen, and greater things than these my ear has heard.