Good News Translation
Sometimes your own intuition can tell you more than seven watchmen on a high tower.

New Revised Standard Version
For our own mind sometimes keeps us better informed than seven sentinels sitting high on a watchtower.

Contemporary English Version
Thinking for yourself will often tell you more than if you had seven lookouts in a high tower.

New American Bible
The heart can reveal your situation better than seven sentinels on a tower.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Nor with him that worketh by the year of the finishing of the year, nor with an idle servant of much business: give no heed to these in any matter of counsel.

Nor with him that worketh by the year of the finishing of the year, nor with an idle servant of much business: give no heed to these in any matter of counsel.

Sirach 37:12
Treat not with a man without religion concerning holiness, nor with an unjust man concerning justice, nor with a woman touching her of whom she is jealous, nor with a coward concerning war, nor with a merchant about traffic, nor with a buyer of selling, nor with an envious man of giving thanks,

Sirach 37:13
Nor with the ungodly of piety, nor with the dishonest of honesty, nor with the field laborer of every work,

Sirach 37:15
But be continually with a holy man, whomsoever thou shalt know to observe the fear of God,

Sirach 37:16
Whose soul is according to thy own soul: and who, when thou shalt stumble in the dark, will be sorry for thee.