Good News Translation
Acts of kindness and charity are as lasting as eternity.

New Revised Standard Version
but kindness is like a garden of blessings, and almsgiving endures forever.

Contemporary English Version
But those who show kindness, especially to the poor, are gardens that always bloom with blessing after blessing.

New American Bible
But goodness, like eternity, will never be cut off, and righteousness endures forever.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Grace is like a paradise in blessings, and mercy remaineth for ever.

Grace is like a paradise in blessings, and mercy remaineth for ever.

Sirach 40:15
The offspring of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches, and make a noise as unclean roots upon the top of a rock.

Sirach 40:16
The weed growing over every water, and at the bank of the river, shall be pulled up before all grass.

Sirach 40:18
The life of a laborer that is content with what he hath, shall be sweet, and in it thou shalt find a treasure.

Sirach 40:19
Children, and the building of a city shall establish a name, but a blameless wife shall be counted above them both.