Wisdom 4:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁵ The branches will be broken off before they come to maturity,
and their fruit will be useless,
not ripe enough to eat, and good for nothing.
⁶ For children born of unlawful unions
are witnesses of evil against their parents when God examines them.^[a]
7 But the righteous, though they die early, will be at rest.