Good News Translation
A donkey should be given its fodder and its burden, and it should be beaten. A slave should be given food and work, and should be disciplined.

New Revised Standard Version
At the time when you end the days of your life, in the hour of death, distribute your inheritance.

Contemporary English Version
Wait until you are about to die before giving your children their inheritance.

New American Bible
When your few days reach their limit, at the time of death distribute your inheritance.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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.

Sirach 33:22
For it is better that thy children should ask of thee, than that thou look toward the hands of thy children.

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

Sirach 33:25
Fodder, and a wand, and a burden are for an ass: bread, and correction, and work for a slave.

Sirach 33:26
He worketh under correction, and seeketh to rest: let his hands be idle, and he seeketh liberty.