New Revised Standard Version
So if one fasts for his sins, and goes again and does the same things, who will listen to his prayer? And what has he gained by humbling himself?

Contemporary English Version
Suppose you go without eating to show sorrow for your sins and then commit the same sins again. Will God forgive you? No, it was all for nothing.

New American Bible
So one who fasts for sins, but goes and commits them again: Who will hear his prayer, what is gained by mortification?

Douay-Rheims Bible
So a man that fasteth for his sins, and doth the same again, what doth his humbling himself profit him? who will hear his prayer?

So a man that fasteth for his sins, and doth the same again, what doth his humbling himself profit him? who will hear his prayer?

Sirach 34:29
When one prayeth, and another curseth: whose voice will God hear?

Sirach 34:30
He that washeth himself after touching the dead, if he toucheth him again, what doth his washing avail?

Sirach 35:1
He that keepeth the law, multiplieth offerings.

Sirach 35:2
It is a wholesome sacrifice to take heed to the commandments, and to depart from all iniquity.