Good News Translation
Keep him at work, and don't let him be idle; idleness can only teach him how to make trouble.

New Revised Standard Version
Yoke and thong will bow the neck, and for a wicked slave there are racks and tortures.

Contemporary English Version
Use collars and leather straps to keep slaves at their work, and punish the rebellious ones by torturing them. *

New American Bible
The yoke and harness will bow the neck; and for a wicked slave, punishment in the stocks.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The yoke and the thong bend a stiff neck, and continual labours bow a slave.

The yoke and the thong bend a stiff neck, and continual labours bow a slave.

Sirach 33:25
Fodder, and a wand, and a burden are for an ass: bread, and correction, and work for a slave.

Sirach 33:26
He worketh under correction, and seeketh to rest: let his hands be idle, and he seeketh liberty.

Sirach 33:28
Torture and fetters are for a malicious slave: send him to work, that he be not idle:

Sirach 33:29
For idleness hath taught much evil.