Good News Translation
As for me, I thought of myself as an irrigation canal bringing water from a river into a garden.

New Revised Standard Version
As for me, I was like a canal from a river, like a water channel into a garden.

Contemporary English Version
I thought of myself as a small canal from the river of God's Wisdom to my garden,

New American Bible
Now I, like a stream from a river, and like water channeling into a garden—

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be confounded: and they that work by me, shall not sin.

He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be confounded: and they that work by me, shall not sin.

Sirach 24:28
My memory is unto everlasting generations.

Sirach 24:29
They that eat me, shall yet hunger: and they that drink me, shall yet thirst.

Sirach 24:31
They that explain me shall have life everlasting.

Sirach 24:32
All these things are the book of life, and the covenant of the most High, and the knowledge of truth.