Good News Translation
When parents give their blessing, they give strength to their children's homes, but when they curse their children, they destroy the very foundations.

New Revised Standard Version
For a father’s blessing strengthens the houses of the children, but a mother’s curse uproots their foundations.

Contemporary English Version
and your own family will have success. But if your mother places a curse on you, your family will face ruin.

New American Bible
A father’s blessing gives a person firm roots, but a mother’s curse uproots the growing plant.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Honour thy father, in work and word, and all patience,

Honour thy father, in work and word, and all patience,

Sirach 3:7
He that honoureth his father shall enjoy a long life: and he that obeyeth the father, shall be a comfort to his mother.

Sirach 3:8
He that feareth the Lord, honoureth his parents, and will serve them as his masters that brought him into the world.

Sirach 3:10
That a blessing may come upon thee from him, and his blessing may remain in the latter end.

Sirach 3:11
The father's blessing establisheth the houses of the children: but the mother's curse rooteth up the foundation.