Sirach 16:2-4

Wycliffe Bible

² Be thou not glad in wicked sons, if they be multiplied; neither delight thou on (or in) them, if the dread of God is not in them. [Make thou not merry in unpious sons, if they be multiplied; nor delight thou upon them, if there is not the dread of God in them.]

³ Believe thou not to the life of them, and behold thou not into the travails of them. For why better is one dreading God, than a thousand wicked sons. And it is more profitable to die without sons, than to leave wicked sons. [Not give thou faith to the life of them, and not behold thou into the travails of them. Better is forsooth one dreading God, than a thousand unpious sons. And profitable it is to die without sons, than to leave unpious sons.]

⁴ A country shall be inhabited of (or by) one witty man; and it shall be made (a) desert of (or by) three wicked men. [Of one well feeling man shall be inhabited the city; and of three unpious it shall be forsaken.]