Good News Translation
I was long convinced of this, so after thinking it over I put it in writing.)

New Revised Standard Version
So from the beginning I have been convinced of all this and have thought it out and left it in writing:

Contemporary English Version
I have believed all these things since my childhood, but I thought deeply about them before I wrote them down in that song.

New American Bible
That is why from the first I took my stand, and wrote down as my theme:

Douay-Rheims Bible
All these things shall be for good to the holy, so to the sinners and the ungodly they shall be turned into evil.

All these things shall be for good to the holy, so to the sinners and the ungodly they shall be turned into evil.

Sirach 39:30
Good things were created for the good from the beginning, so for the wicked, good and evil things.

Sirach 39:31
The principal things necessary for the life of men, are water, fire, and iron, salt, milk, and bread of flour, and honey, and the cluster of the grape, and oil, and clothing.

Sirach 39:33
There are spirits that are created for vengeance, and in their fury they lay on grievous torments.

Sirach 39:34
In the time of destruction they shall pour out their force: and they shall appease the wrath of him that made them.