Good News Translation
It is the same with the artist and the craftsman, who work night and day engraving precious stones, carefully working out new designs. They take great pains to produce a lifelike image, and will work far into the night to finish the work.

New Revised Standard Version
So it is with every artisan and master artisan who labors by night as well as by day; those who cut the signets of seals, each is diligent in making a great variety; they set their heart on painting a lifelike image, and they are careful to finish their work.

Contemporary English Version
Who has time to study wisdom? Not artists who carve designs on rings and other jewelry. These artists work with care night and day, making sure each design is different and leaves a perfect pattern when pressed in soft wax.

New American Bible
So with every engraver and designer who, laboring night and day, Fashions carved seals, and whose concern is to vary the pattern. His determination is to produce a lifelike impression, and he is careful to finish the work.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall give his mind to turn up furrows, and his care is to give the kine fodder.

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

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 38:26
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 38:28
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.

Sirach 38:29
So doth the smith sitting by the anvil and considering the iron work. The vapour of the fire wasteth his flesh, and he fighteth with the heat of the furnace.