Wisdom 4:6 CPDV

⁴  And if they spring forth with branches for a time, yet, being set infirmly, they will be shaken by the wind, and, by the superabundance of the winds, they will be eradicated.

⁵  For the incomplete branches will be broken, and their fruits will be useless, and bitter to eat, and fit for nothing.

⁶  For all the sons born from iniquity are witnesses of wickedness against their parents at their interrogation.

⁷  But the just, if death seizes him beforehand, will be refreshed.

⁸  For old age is made venerable, neither by lasting long, nor by counting the number of years; yet understanding is the gray hair of wisdom for men,