Good News Translation
Be like a father to orphans, and provide widows with the help their husbands can no longer give them. Then you will be like a child of the Most High, and he will love you more than your own mother does.

New Revised Standard Version
Be a father to orphans, and be like a husband to their mother; you will then be like a son of the Most High, and he will love you more than does your mother.

Contemporary English Version
provide for orphans and widows, as if they were your own children or wife. Then you will be a true child of God Most High, and he will love you more than your own mother does.

New American Bible
Be like a father to orphans, and take the place of a husband to widows. Then God will call you his child, and he will be merciful to you and deliver you from the pit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In judging be merciful to the fatherless as a father, and as a husband to their mother.

In judging be merciful to the fatherless as a father, and as a husband to their mother.

Sirach 4:8
Bow down thy ear cheerfully to the poor, and pay what thou owest, and answer him peaceable words with mildness.

Sirach 4:9
Deliver him that suffereth wrong out of the hand of the proud: and be not fainthearted in thy soul.

Sirach 4:11
And thou shalt be as the obedient son of the most High, and he will have mercy on thee more than a mother.

Sirach 4:12
Wisdom inspireth life into her children, and protecteth them that seek after her, and will go before them in the way of justice.