15. Honest deeds are like a tree that bears marvellous fruit. Wisdom is like a root that is alive and can always send up new shoots.
16. But children born of adultery or of a forbidden union will die an early death.
17. Yet even if they do live a long time, they will never amount to anything. They will not be respected in their old age,
18. and if they die young, they will have no hope or comfort on Judgement Day.
19. Children born of a forbidden union suffer a miserable fate.