Good News Translation
Without such people there could be no cities; no one would live or visit where these services were not available.

New Revised Standard Version
Without them no city can be inhabited, and wherever they live, they will not go hungry. Yet they are not sought out for the council of the people,

Contemporary English Version
Without them in a town, no one would live there or even visit. But they are not asked to serve on public committees,

New American Bible
Without them no city could be lived in, and wherever they stay, they do not go hungry. But they are not sought out for the council of the people,

Douay-Rheims Bible
So doth the potter sitting at his work, turning the wheel about with his feet, who is always carefully set to his work, and maketh all his work by number:

So doth the potter sitting at his work, turning the wheel about with his feet, who is always carefully set to his work, and maketh all his work by number:

Sirach 38:30
The noise of the hammer is always in his ears, and his eye is upon the pattern of the vessel he maketh.

Sirach 38:31
He setteth his mind to finish his work, and his watching to polish them to perfection.

Sirach 38:33
He fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his strength before his feet:

Sirach 38:34
He shall give his mind to finish the glazing, and his watching to make clean the furnace.