Good News Translation
There are two things that make me sad, and a third that makes me angry: a soldier who has become poor, intelligent people who are not respected, and a righteous person who turns to evil. The Lord will punish such a person with death!

Contemporary English Version
It makes me terribly sad when the rich become poor or the wise are insulted. But I get angry if those who do right start doing wrong. The Lord will punish them with a violent death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Two sorts of callings have appeared to me hard and dangerous: a merchant is hardly free from negligence: and a huckster shall not be justified from the sins of the lips.

Two sorts of callings have appeared to me hard and dangerous: a merchant is hardly free from negligence: and a huckster shall not be justified from the sins of the lips.

Sirach 26:26
A man of war fainting through poverty, and a man of sense despised:

Sirach 26:27
And he that passeth over from justice to sin, God hath prepared such an one for the sword.

Sirach 27:1
Through poverty many have sinned: and he that seeketh to be enriched, turneth away his eye.

Sirach 27:2
As a stake sticketh fast in the midst of the joining of stones, so also in the midst of selling and buying, sin shall stick fast.