Good News Translation
They will excuse your errors if they like you, so cultivate the soil and reap the harvest!

New Revised Standard Version
Those who cultivate the soil heap up their harvest, and those who please the great atone for injustice.

Contemporary English Version
If you plow and plant, you will harvest a crop, and if you please the powerful, they will overlook your mistakes.

New American Bible
Those who work the land have abundant crops, and those who please the great are pardoned their faults.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The manners of lying men are without honour: and their confusion is with them without ceasing.

The manners of lying men are without honour: and their confusion is with them without ceasing.

Sirach 20:26
A lie is a foul blot in a man, and yet it will be continually in the mouth of men without discipline.

Sirach 20:27
A thief is better than a man that is always lying: but both of them shall inherit destruction.

Sirach 20:29
A wise man shall advance himself with his words, and a prudent man shall please the great ones.

Sirach 20:30
He that tilleth his land shall make a high heap of corn: and he that worketh justice shall be exalted: and he that pleaseth great men shall escape iniquity.