Wisdom 4:4-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁴ For even if they put forth boughs for a while,
standing insecurely they will be shaken by the wind,
and by the violence of the winds they will be uprooted.
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]