Wisdom 3:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Even if they live long they will be held of no account, and finally their old age will be without honor.

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Even if they live to old age, their lives won’t amount to anything. In their old age they will have no honor.

And if they live long, they will be counted as nothing, and their last years of old-age will be without honor.

And if they live long, they shall be nothing regarded, and their last old age shall be without honour.

Yet even if they do live a long time, they will never amount to anything. They will not be respected in their old age,

For if they live long, they will not be esteemed, and in the end, their old age will be without honor.

Even if they live a long time, they won't be respected.