Good News Translation
Those who are alive can give thanks to the Lord, but can anyone in the world of the dead sing praise to the Most High?

New Revised Standard Version
Who will sing praises to the Most High in Hades in place of the living who give thanks?

Contemporary English Version
Only the living can thank the Lord-- no one in the world of the dead can praise him;

New American Bible
Who in Sheol can glorify the Most High in place of the living who offer their praise?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Give thanks whilst thou art living, whilst thou art alive and in health thou shalt give thanks, and shalt praise God, and shalt glory in his mercies.

Give thanks whilst thou art living, whilst thou art alive and in health thou shalt give thanks, and shalt praise God, and shalt glory in his mercies.

Sirach 17:25
Go to the side of the holy age, with them that live and give praise to God.

Sirach 17:26
Tarry not in the error of the ungodly, give glory before death. Praise perisheth from the dead as nothing.

Sirach 17:28
How great is the mercy of the Lord, and his forgiveness to them that turn to him !

Sirach 17:29
For all things cannot be in men, because the son of man is not immortal, and they are delighted with the vanity of evil.