Good News Translation
He takes great pains to plow a straight furrow and will work far into the night to feed the animals.

New Revised Standard Version
He sets his heart on plowing furrows, and he is careful about fodder for the heifers.

Contemporary English Version
in straight lines. Then they work at night feeding their livestock. Farmers talk about cattle, not wisdom.

New American Bible
His concern is to plow furrows, and he is careful to fatten the livestock.

Douay-Rheims Bible
With what wisdom shall he be furnished that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth the oxen therewith, and is occupied in their labours, and his whole talk is about the offspring of bulls?

With what wisdom shall he be furnished that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth the oxen therewith, and is occupied in their labours, and his whole talk is about the offspring of bulls?

Sirach 38:24
When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest, and comfort him in the departing of his spirit.

Sirach 38:25
The wisdom of a scribe cometh by his time of leisure: and he that is less in action, shall receive wisdom.

Sirach 38:27
He shall give his mind to turn up furrows, and his care is to give the kine fodder.

Sirach 38:28
So every craftsman and workmaster that laboureth night and day, he who maketh graven seals, and by his continual diligence varieth the figure: he shall give his mind to the resemblance of the picture, and by his watching shall finish the work.