Good News Translation
It is a happy person who is concerned with Wisdom and who uses good sense.

New Revised Standard Version
Happy is the person who meditates on wisdom and reasons intelligently,

Contemporary English Version
Wisdom always blesses those who learn how to reason by thinking about her.

New American Bible
Happy those who meditate on Wisdom, and fix their gaze on knowledge;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Every work that is corruptible shall fail in the end: and the worker thereof shall go with it.

Every work that is corruptible shall fail in the end: and the worker thereof shall go with it.

Sirach 14:18
All flesh shall fade as grass, and as the leaf that springeth out on a green tree.

Sirach 14:19
Some grow, and some fall off: so is the generation of flesh and blood, one cometh to an end, and another is born.

Sirach 14:21
And every excellent work shall be justified: and the worker thereof shall be honoured therein.

Sirach 14:22
Blessed is the man that shall continue in wisdom, and that shall meditate in his justice, and in his mind shall think of the all seeing eye of God.