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.
7 In the synagogue of sinners, a fire will blaze forth; and amid an unbelieving people, wrath will flare up.
8 The giants of antiquity did not obtain pardon for their sins; they were destroyed by trusting in their own abilities.
9 And he did not spare the place of Lot's sojourn, and he abhorred them because of the arrogance of their words.