Sirach 44:8-10

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⁸ Some of them have left behind a name,
    so that others declare their praise.
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.^(A)
10 But these also were men of compassion
    whose righteous deeds have not been forgotten;