Good News Translation
Keep control over all that you do; don't let anything stain your reputation.

New Revised Standard Version
For it is better that your children should ask from you than that you should look to the hand of your children.

Contemporary English Version
It is better that your children ask you for money than for you to ask them.

New American Bible
Far better that your children plead with you than that you should look for a handout from them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For it is better that thy children should ask of thee, than that thou look toward the hands of thy children.

For it is better that thy children should ask of thee, than that thou look toward the hands of thy children.

Sirach 33:20
Give not to son or wife, brother or friend, power over thee while thou livest; and give not thy estate to another, lest thou repent, and thou entreat for the same.

Sirach 33:21
As long as thou livest, and hast breath in thee, let no man change thee.

Sirach 33:23
In all thy works keep the pre-eminence.

Sirach 33:24
Let no stain sully thy glory. In the time when thou shalt end the days of thy life, and in the time of thy decease, distribute thy inheritance.