Good News Translation
all of us from the king on his splendid throne wearing royal robes and a crown, to the humblest person dressed in burlap and living in poverty.

New Revised Standard Version
From the one who sits on a splendid throne to the one who grovels in dust and ashes,

Contemporary English Version
And each of us is bothered by troubling feelings-- from the king, seated on his glorious throne and wearing his crown and royal robes, *

New American Bible
Whether one sits on a lofty throne or grovels in dust and ashes,

Douay-Rheims Bible
From him that sitteth on a glorious throne, unto him that is humbled in earth and ashes:

From him that sitteth on a glorious throne, unto him that is humbled in earth and ashes:

Sirach 40:1
Great labour is created for all men, and a heavy yoke is upon the children of Adam from the day of their coming out of their mother's womb, until the day of their burial into the mother of all.

Sirach 40:2
Their thoughts, and fears of the heart, their imagination of things to come, and the day of their end:

Sirach 40:4
From him that weareth purple, and beareth the crown, even to him that is covered with rough linen: wrath, envy, trouble, unquietness, and the fear of death, continual anger, and strife,

Sirach 40:5
And in the time of rest upon his bed, the sleep of the night changeth his knowledge.