44 Let us now sing the praises of famous men,
    our ancestors in their generations.

⁹ But of others there is no memory;
    they have perished as though they had never existed;
they have become as though they had never been born,
    they and their children after them.
¹⁰ But these also were godly men,
    whose righteous deeds have not been forgotten;
¹¹ their wealth will remain with their descendants,
    and their inheritance with their children’s children.^[a]
12 Their descendants stand by the covenants;
    their children also, for their sake.
¹³ Their offspring will continue forever,
    and their glory will never be blotted out.