Good News Translation
If someone is honored while he is poor, think how much he will be honored if he becomes rich! If someone is despised while he is rich, think how much more he will be despised if he becomes poor!

New Revised Standard Version
One who is honored in poverty, how much more in wealth! And one dishonored in wealth, how much more in poverty!

Contemporary English Version
So when the poor become rich they will be praised more, but the disgrace of the wealthy will become much worse if they lose their money.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My son, keep thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according to its desert.

My son, keep thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according to its desert.

Sirach 10:29
Extol not thyself in doing thy work, and linger not in the time of distress;

Sirach 10:30
Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth in all things, than he that boasteth himself and wanteth bread.

Sirach 10:32
Who will justify him that sinneth against his own soul? and who will honour him that dishonoureth his own soul?

Sirach 10:33
The poor man is glorified by his discipline and fear, and there is a man that is honoured for his wealth.