Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: for the memorial thereof is immortal: because it is known with God, and with men.
KJV
Wisdom of Solomon 4:1
Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: for the memorial thereof is immortal: because it is known with God, and with men.
Parallel Translations
Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue: for the memorial thereof is immortal: because it is known with God, and with men.
It is better to be childless with virtue, for immortality is in the memory of virtue, because it is recognized both before God and before men.