Good News Translation
The finest food means nothing if you are too sick to eat it; it might as well be offered to an idol.

New Revised Standard Version
Good things poured out upon a mouth that is closed are like offerings of food placed upon a grave.

Contemporary English Version
If a fine dinner is served, but the guests are too sick to eat, the dinner will go to waste, like food placed on a grave

New American Bible
Good things set before one who cannot eat are like food offerings placed before a tomb.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Good things that are hidden in a mouth that is shut, are as messes of meat set about a grave.

Good things that are hidden in a mouth that is shut, are as messes of meat set about a grave.

Sirach 30:16
There is no riches above the riches of the health of the body: and there is no pleasure above the joy of the heart.

Sirach 30:17
Better is death than a bitter life, and everlasting rest, than continual sickness.

Sirach 30:19
What good shall an offering do to an idol? for it can neither eat, nor smell:

Sirach 30:20
So is he that is persecuted by the Lord, bearing the reward of his iniquity: