All things are twofold, one opposite the other: Good News Translation expresses this well with “All things are in pairs, each the opposite of the other.” Compare 33.15.

And he has made nothing incomplete: Good News Translation begins this line with the connector “but,” which is more appropriate than and. This line could be stated positively as follows: “but everything he made is complete [in itself].”

Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Sirach. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2008. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.