Good News Translation
A wise ruler will educate his people, and his government will be orderly.

New Revised Standard Version
A wise magistrate educates his people, and the rule of an intelligent person is well ordered.

Contemporary English Version
A wise judge teaches the laws to the people, and a smart ruler gets things organized.

New American Bible
A wise magistrate gives stability to his people, and government by the intelligent is well ordered.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A wise judge shall judge his people, and the government of a prudent man shall be steady.

A wise judge shall judge his people, and the government of a prudent man shall be steady.

Sirach 9:24
Works shall be praised for the hand of the artificers, and the prince of the people for the wisdom of his speech, but the word of the ancients for the sense.

Sirach 9:25
A man full of tongue is terrible in his city, and he that is rash in his word shall be hateful.

Sirach 10:2
As the judge of the people is himself, so also are his ministers: and what manner of man the ruler of a city is, such also are they that dwell therein.

Sirach 10:3
An unwise king shall be the ruin of his people: and cities shall be inhabited through the prudence of the rulers.