Good News Translation
Gracefulness and beauty please the eye, but not as much as new growth in the spring.

New Revised Standard Version
The eye desires grace and beauty, but the green shoots of grain more than either.

Contemporary English Version
Our eyes like beauty and graceful movement, but most of all, we want to see our fields becoming green with sprouting wheat.

New American Bible
Grace and beauty delight the eye, but better than either, the produce of the field.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy eye desireth favour and beauty, but more than these green sown fields.

Thy eye desireth favour and beauty, but more than these green sown fields.

Sirach 40:20
Wine and music rejoice the heart, but the love of wisdom is above them both.

Sirach 40:21
The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.

Sirach 40:23
A friend and companion meeting together in season, but above them both is a wife with her husband.

Sirach 40:24
Brethren are a help in the time of trouble, but mercy shall deliver more than they.