Good News Translation
There are two things that make me sad, and a third that makes me angry: a soldier who has become poor, intelligent people who are not respected, and a righteous person who turns to evil. The Lord will punish such a person with death!

New Revised Standard Version
At two things my heart is grieved, and because of a third anger comes over me: a warrior in want through poverty, intelligent men who are treated contemptuously, and a man who turns back from righteousness to sin— the Lord will prepare him for the sword!

Contemporary English Version
It makes me terribly sad when the rich become poor or the wise are insulted. But I get angry if those who do right start doing wrong. The Lord will punish them with a violent death.

New American Bible
Two things bring grief to my heart, and a third arouses my anger: The wealthy reduced to want, the intelligent held in contempt, And those who pass from righteousness to sin— the Lord prepares them for the sword.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Two sorts of callings have appeared to me hard and dangerous: a merchant is hardly free from negligence: and a huckster shall not be justified from the sins of the lips.

Two sorts of callings have appeared to me hard and dangerous: a merchant is hardly free from negligence: and a huckster shall not be justified from the sins of the lips.

Sirach 26:26
A man of war fainting through poverty, and a man of sense despised:

Sirach 26:27
And he that passeth over from justice to sin, God hath prepared such an one for the sword.

Sirach 27:1
Through poverty many have sinned: and he that seeketh to be enriched, turneth away his eye.

Sirach 27:2
As a stake sticketh fast in the midst of the joining of stones, so also in the midst of selling and buying, sin shall stick fast.