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44Let us now sing the praises of famous men,
   our ancestors in their generations.
⁹ But of others there is no memory;
   they have perished as though they had never existed;
they have become as though they had never been born,
   they and their children after them.
¹⁰ But these also were godly men,
   whose righteous deeds have not been forgotten;
¹¹ their wealth will remain with their descendants,
   and their inheritance with their children’s children.
¹² Their descendants stand by the covenants;
   their children also, for their sake.
¹³ Their offspring will continue for ever,
   and their glory will never be blotted out.