Good News Translation
The way you think shows your character just as surely as a kiln shows any flaws in the pottery being fired.

Contemporary English Version
The quality of a clay dish is seen in the heat of the pottery furnace, just as our true character is seen in what we say.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As when one sifteth with a sieve, the dust will remain: so will the perplexity of a man in his thoughts.

As when one sifteth with a sieve, the dust will remain: so will the perplexity of a man in his thoughts.

Sirach 27:3
Sin shall be destroyed with the sinner.

Sirach 27:4
Unless thou hold thyself diligently in the fear of the Lord, thy house shall quickly be overthrown.

Sirach 27:6
The furnace trieth the potter's vessels, and the trial of affliction just men.

Sirach 27:7
As the dressing of a tree sheweth the fruit thereof, so a word out of the thought of the heart of man.