Wisdom 4:1-3

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

4 O how beautiful is the chaste generation with glory: for the memory thereof is immortal: because it is known both with God and with men.

² When it is present, they imitate it: and they desire it when it hath withdrawn itself, and it triumpheth crowned for ever, winning the reward of undefiled conflicts.

³ But the multiplied brood of the wicked shall not thrive, and bastard slips shall not take deep root, nor any fast foundation.