Good News Translation
May God bless everyone who gives attention to these teachings. Whoever takes them to heart will become wise.

New Revised Standard Version
Happy are those who concern themselves with these things, and those who lay them to heart will become wise.

Contemporary English Version
If you read and pay attention to the wisdom in this book, you will be happy and wise.

New American Bible
Happy those who meditate upon these things; wise those who take them to heart!

Douay-Rheims Bible
They that sit on mount Seir, and the Philistines, and the foolish people that dwell in Sichem.

They that sit on mount Seir, and the Philistines, and the foolish people that dwell in Sichem.

Sirach 50:26
That Israel may believe that the mercy of God is with us, to deliver us in his days.

Sirach 50:27
There are two nations which my soul abhorreth: and the third is no nation: which I hate:

Sirach 50:29
Jesus the son of Sirach, of Jerusalem, hath written in this book the doctrine of wisdom and instruction, who renewed wisdom from his heart.

Sirach 50:30
Blessed is he that is conversant in these good things and he that layeth them up in his heart, shall be wise always.