There are some of them who have left a name: This verse contrasts with verse 9. It tells us that some of the men mentioned above are still remembered. Verse 9 will tell us that others are forgotten, even though, as verse 7 says, they were well known during their lifetimes. Here a name refers to “a reputation” (Good News Translation); leaving a name means that you are remembered after your death. So for this line Good News Translation has “Some of them left a reputation.”

So that men declare their praise: The important thing here is to make it clear that “people still praise them” at the present day, so this line may be rendered “and even today people praise them.”

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.