12. Their wives are foolish and their sons are wicked; the things that serve them are accursed.
13. Therefore, fertile is the barren and undefiled, who has not known transgressions in bed; she will bear fruit by caring for holy souls.
14. And fertile is the celibate, who has not wrought iniquity with his hands, nor thought wickedness against God; for to him will be given a special gift of faith and a very welcome place in the temple of the Lord.
15. For the fruit of good labors is glorious and the root of wisdom shall never perish.
16. But the sons of adulterers will not reach completion, and the offspring of a sinful bed will be banished.
17. And if they live long, they will be counted as nothing, and their last years of old-age will be without honor.
18. And if they die quickly, they will have no hope, nor words of comfort on the day of reckoning.
19. For the iniquities of the people have a dreadful result.