Good News Translation
It is wise to lock things up if you cannot trust your wife or if too many people are around.

New Revised Standard Version
Where there is an untrustworthy wife, a seal is a good thing; and where there are many hands, lock things up.

Contemporary English Version
Husbands, if your wife cannot be trusted, or if a lot of visitors will be in your home, lock up everything of value.

New American Bible
Of a seal to keep a foolish wife at home, of a key where there are many hands;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sure keeping is good over a wicked wife.

Sure keeping is good over a wicked wife.

Sirach 42:4
Of exactness of balance and weights, of getting much or little:

Sirach 42:5
Of the corruption of buying, and of merchants, and of much correction of children, and to make the side of a wicked slave to bleed.

Sirach 42:7
Where there are many hands, shut up, and deliver all things in number, and weight: and put all in writing that thou givest out or receivest in.

Sirach 42:8
Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the aged, that are judged by young men: and thou shalt be well instructed in all things, and well approved in the sight of all men living.