Good News Translation
A man who has no use for wisdom or education has a miserable life in store for him. He has nothing to hope for. His labors are useless, and he will never accomplish anything worthwhile.

New Revised Standard Version
for those who despise wisdom and instruction are miserable. Their hope is vain, their labors are unprofitable, and their works are useless.

Contemporary English Version
They are terribly miserable, because they reject wisdom and sound advice. Their future is hopeless, and everything they do is completely useless.

New American Bible
For those who despise wisdom and instruction are doomed. Vain is their hope, fruitless their labors, and worthless their works.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he that rejecteth wisdom, and discipline, is unhappy: and their hope is vain, and their labours without fruit, and their works unprofitable.

For he that rejecteth wisdom, and discipline, is unhappy: and their hope is vain, and their labours without fruit, and their works unprofitable.

Wisdom 3:9
They that trust in him shall understand the truth: and they that are faithful in love, shall rest in him: for grace and peace are to his elect.

Wisdom 3:10
But the wicked shall be punished according to their own devices: who have neglected the just, and have revolted from the Lord.

Wisdom 3:12
Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked.

Wisdom 3:13
Their offspring is cursed, for happy is the barren: and the undefiled, that hath not known bed in sin, she shall have fruit in the visitation of holy souls.