Good News Translation
When you do your work, don't make a show of your skill, and don't try to put on a show when you are in trouble.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not make a display of your wisdom when you do your work, and do not boast when you are in need.

Contemporary English Version
Don't spend your time thinking of ways to avoid work, and don't pretend to be well off if you are short of money.

New American Bible
Better the worker who has goods in plenty than the boaster who has no food.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Despise not a just man that is poor, and do not magnify a sinful man that is rich.

Despise not a just man that is poor, and do not magnify a sinful man that is rich.

Sirach 10:24
In the midst of brethren their chief is honourable: so shall they that fear the Lord, be in his eyes.

Sirach 10:25
The fear of God is the glory of the rich, and of the honourable, and of the poor.

Sirach 10:27
The great man, and the judge, and the mighty is in honour: and there is none greater than he that feareth God.

Sirach 10:28
They that are free shall serve a servant that is wise: and a man that is prudent and well instructed will not murmur when he is reproved; and he that is ignorant, shall not be honoured.