Good News Translation
When he was still a boy, he killed a giant to rescue his people. He put a stone in his sling, took aim, and put an end to Goliath's bragging.

New Revised Standard Version
In his youth did he not kill a giant, and take away the people’s disgrace, when he whirled the stone in the sling and struck down the boasting Goliath?

Contemporary English Version
When David was a boy, he put a stone in his sling and swung it around. Then he let the stone fly, and it brought down Goliath, the giant whose boasting had put Israel to shame.

New American Bible
As a youth he struck down the giant and wiped out the people’s disgrace; His hand let fly the slingstone that shattered the pride of Goliath.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Did not he kill the giant, and take away reproach from his people?

Did not he kill the giant, and take away reproach from his people?

Sirach 47:2
And as the fat taken away from the flesh, so was David chosen from among the children of Israel.

Sirach 47:3
He played with lions as with lambs: and with bears he did in like manner as with the lambs of the flock, in his youth.

Sirach 47:5
In lifting up his hand, with the stone in the sling he beat down the boasting of Goliath:

Sirach 47:6
For he called upon the Lord the Almighty, and he gave strength in his right hand, to take away the mighty warrior, and to set up the horn of his nation.