Good News Translation
Undisciplined people find Wisdom's demands too hard and don't have enough determination to meet them.

New Revised Standard Version
She seems very harsh to the undisciplined; fools cannot remain with her.

Contemporary English Version
But to those who are fools or have no discipline, the job will seem too great, and they will give up.

New American Bible
She is rough ground to the fool! The stupid cannot abide her.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For in working about her thou shalt labour a little, and shalt quickly eat of her fruits.

For in working about her thou shalt labour a little, and shalt quickly eat of her fruits.

Sirach 6:18
My son, from thy youth up receive instruction, and even to thy grey hairs thou shalt find wisdom.

Sirach 6:19
Come to her as one that plougheth, and soweth, and wait for her good fruits:

Sirach 6:21
How very unpleasant is wisdom to the unlearned, and the unwise will not continue with her.

Sirach 6:22
She shall be to them as a mighty stone of trial, and they will cast her from them before it be long.