Good News Translation
If you have to depend on someone else for your food, you are not really living your own life. You pollute yourself by accepting food from another. Begging is torture to the soul of any sensitive person.

New Revised Standard Version
When one looks to the table of another, one’s way of life cannot be considered a life. One loses self-respect with another person’s food, but one who is intelligent and well instructed guards against that.

Contemporary English Version
If you have to beg for food, your life isn't your own, and you won't have any respect for yourself. If you are smart and have learned anything, you won't beg.

New American Bible
When one has to look to a stranger’s table, life is not worth living. The delicacies offered bring revulsion of spirit, and to the intelligent, inward torture.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My son, in thy lifetime be not indigent: for it is better to die than to want.

My son, in thy lifetime be not indigent: for it is better to die than to want.

Sirach 40:27
There is no want in the fear of the Lord, and it needeth not to seek for help.

Sirach 40:28
The fear of the Lord is like a paradise of blessing, and they have covered it above all glory.

Sirach 40:30
The life of him that looketh toward another man's table is not to be counted a life: for he feedeth his soul with another man's meat.

Sirach 40:31
But a man, well instructed and taught, will look to himself.