Even if they live long they will be held of no account, and finally their old age will be without honor: Here we are talking about the actual length of the children’s lives. A possible approach is “Even if their children live a long time, people will always think of them as worthless. Even in old age they will not be respected.”

Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on The Wisdom of Solomon. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2004. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.