Good News Translation
No matter how many children you have, don't look on them with pride unless they fear the Lord.

New Revised Standard Version
If they multiply, do not rejoice in them, unless the fear of the Lord is in them.

Contemporary English Version
You can have lots of children, but they will bring joy only if they fear the Lord.

New American Bible
Even if they be many, do not rejoice in them if they do not have fear of the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Trust not to their life, and respect not their labours.

Trust not to their life, and respect not their labours.

Sirach 15:22
For he desireth not a multitude of faithless and unprofitable children.

Sirach 16:1
Rejoice not in ungodly children, if they be multiplied: neither be delighted in them, if the fear of God be not with them.

Sirach 16:3
For better is one that feareth God, than a thousand ungodly children.

Sirach 16:4
And it is better to die without children, than to leave ungodly children.