Good News Translation
A person with a warped mind causes trouble, but an experienced person knows how to pay it back.

New Revised Standard Version
Bear witness to those whom you created in the beginning, and fulfill the prophecies spoken in your name.

Contemporary English Version
Prove that you chose us as your people. You told your prophets to make promises to us; now keep these promises

New American Bible
Give evidence of your deeds of old; fulfill the prophecies spoken in your name.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The belly will devour all meat, yet one is better than another.

The belly will devour all meat, yet one is better than another.

Sirach 36:18
Reward them that patiently wait for thee, that thy prophets may be found faithful: and hear the prayers of thy servants,

Sirach 36:19
According to the blessing of Aaron over thy people, and direct us into the way of justice, and let all know that dwell upon the earth, that thou art God the beholder of all ages.

Sirach 36:21
The palate tasteth venison and the wise heart false speeches.

Sirach 36:22
A perverse heart will cause grief, and a man of experience will resist it.