Good News Translation
But your lust for women was your downfall.

New Revised Standard Version
But you brought in women to lie at your side, and through your body you were brought into subjection.

Contemporary English Version
But he married lots of wives, and they used his desire for sex to gain control over him.

New American Bible
But you abandoned yourself to women and gave them dominion over your body.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And at the name of the Lord God, whose surname is, God of Israel.

And at the name of the Lord God, whose surname is, God of Israel.

Sirach 47:17
And thou didst multiply riddles in parables: thy name went abroad to the islands far off, and thou wast beloved in thy peace.

Sirach 47:18
The countries wondered at thee for thy canticles, and proverbs, and parables, and interpretations,

Sirach 47:20
Thou didst gather gold as copper, and didst multiply silver as lead,

Sirach 47:21
And thou didst bow thyself to women: and by thy body thou wast brought under subjection.