New Revised Standard Version
it sprouts four branches, good and evil, life and death; and it is the tongue that continually rules them.

Contemporary English Version
whether it helps or harms, or brings life or death, and how people talk determines what they do.

New American Bible
four branches it shoots forth: Good and evil, death and life, and their absolute mistress is the tongue.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The soul of a holy man discovereth sometimes true things, more than seven watchmen that sit in a high place to watch.

The soul of a holy man discovereth sometimes true things, more than seven watchmen that sit in a high place to watch.

Sirach 37:16
Whose soul is according to thy own soul: and who, when thou shalt stumble in the dark, will be sorry for thee.

Sirach 37:17
And establish within thyself a heart of good counsel: for there is no other thing of more worth to thee than it.

Sirach 37:19
But above all these things pray to the most High, that he may direct thy way in truth.

Sirach 37:20
In all thy works let the true word go before thee, and steady counsel before every action.