Sirach 44:9-11

Revised Standard Version

⁹ And there are some who have no memorial,
    who have perished as though they had not lived;
they have become as though they had not been born,
    and so have their children after them.
¹⁰ But these were men of mercy,
    whose righteous deeds have not been forgotten;
¹¹ their prosperity will remain with their descendants,
    and their inheritance to their children’s children.^[a]