Good News Translation
A city's population may grow because of the wisdom of one person, while a whole tribe of lawless people disappears.

New Revised Standard Version
For through one intelligent person a city can be filled with people, but through a clan of outlaws it becomes desolate.

Contemporary English Version
A family that disobeys the law can make a city a ghost town, but one smart person can fill an empty city with people.

New American Bible
Through one wise person a city can be peopled; but through a clan of rebels it becomes desolate.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it is better to die without children, than to leave ungodly children.

And it is better to die without children, than to leave ungodly children.

Sirach 16:2
Trust not to their life, and respect not their labours.

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

Sirach 16:5
By one that is wise a country shall be inhabited, the tribe of the ungodly shall become desolate.

Sirach 16:6
Many such things hath my eyes seen, and greater things than these my ear hath heard.