Good News Translation
He has placed fire and water before you; reach out and take whichever you want.

New Revised Standard Version
He has placed before you fire and water; stretch out your hand for whichever you choose.

Contemporary English Version
Life and death are as different as fire and water,

New American Bible
Set before you are fire and water; to whatever you choose, stretch out your hand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou wilt keep the commandments and perform acceptable fidelity for ever, they shall preserve thee.

If thou wilt keep the commandments and perform acceptable fidelity for ever, they shall preserve thee.

Sirach 15:14
God made man from the beginning, and left him in the hand of his own counsel.

Sirach 15:15
He added his commandments and precepts.

Sirach 15:17
He hath set water and fire before thee: stretch forth thy hand to which thou wilt.

Sirach 15:18
Before man is life and death, good and evil, that which he shall choose shall be given him: