Good News Translation
But those who lose their nerve are doomed--all those sinners who try to have it both ways!

New Revised Standard Version
Woe to timid hearts and to slack hands, and to the sinner who walks a double path!

Contemporary English Version
But the Lord will send trouble if you don't have the courage to be faithful and to stay away from sin.

New American Bible
Woe to timid hearts and drooping hands, to the sinner who walks a double path!

Douay-Rheims Bible
For who hath continued in his commandment, and hath been forsaken? or who hath called upon him, and he despised him?

For who hath continued in his commandment, and hath been forsaken? or who hath called upon him, and he despised him?

Sirach 2:10
Ye that fear the Lord, love him, and your hearts shall be enlightened.

Sirach 2:11
My children behold the generations of men: and know ye that no one hath hoped in the Lord, and hath been confounded.

Sirach 2:13
For God is compassionate and merciful, and will forgive sins in the day of tribulation: and he is a protector to all that seek him in truth.

Sirach 2:14
Woe to them that are of a double heart and to wicked lips, and to the hands that do evil, and to the sinner that goeth on the earth two ways.