Good News Translation
tumbling rocks along as it flows, but then suddenly goes dry.

New Revised Standard Version
As a generous person has cause to rejoice, so lawbreakers will utterly fail.

Contemporary English Version
And while generous people can celebrate success, those who disobey God will be failures.

New American Bible
Which, in its rising, rolls along the stones, but suddenly, once and for all, comes to an end.

Douay-Rheims Bible
While he openeth his hands he shall rejoice: but transgressors shall pine away in the end.

While he openeth his hands he shall rejoice: but transgressors shall pine away in the end.

Sirach 40:12
All bribery, and injustice shall be blotted out, and fidelity shall stand for ever.

Sirach 40:13
The riches of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and shall pass away with a noise like a great thunder in rain.

Sirach 40:15
The offspring of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches, and make a noise as unclean roots upon the top of a rock.

Sirach 40:16
The weed growing over every water, and at the bank of the river, shall be pulled up before all grass.