Good News Translation
But the work they do holds this world together. When they do their work, it is the same as offering prayer.

New Revised Standard Version
But they maintain the fabric of the world, and their concern is for the exercise of their trade. How different the one who devotes himself to the study of the law of the Most High!

Contemporary English Version
But they do pray about their work, and they keep life going for everyone else. Teachers who study the Law of God Most High are different.

New American Bible
Yet they maintain the fabric of the world, and their concern is for exercise of their skill.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He shall give his mind to finish the glazing, and his watching to make clean the furnace.

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

Sirach 38:32
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 38:33
He fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his strength before his feet:

Sirach 38:35
All these trust to their hands, and every one is wise in his own art.

Sirach 38:36
Without these a city is not built.