Good News Translation
If you push yourself on him, he will put you in your place. On the other hand, if you keep your distance from him, he will forget about you.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not be forward, or you may be rebuffed; do not stand aloof, or you will be forgotten.

Contemporary English Version
Push yourself on them, and you will face rejection; act cold, and they will forget that you are alive.

New American Bible
Do not draw too close, lest you be rebuffed, but do not keep too far away lest you be regarded as an enemy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Beware that thou be not deceived into folly, and be humbled.

Beware that thou be not deceived into folly, and be humbled.

Sirach 13:8
And he will shame thee by his meats, till he have drawn thee dry twice or thrice, and at last he will laugh at thee: and afterward when he seeth thee, he will forsake thee, and shake his head at thee.

Sirach 13:9
Humble thyself to God, and wait for his hands.

Sirach 13:11
Be not lowly in thy wisdom, lest being humbled thou be deceived into folly.

Sirach 13:12
If thou be invited by one that is mightier, withdraw thyself: for so he will invite thee the more.