Good News Translation
A foolish person trying to keep a secret suffers like a woman in labor.

New Revised Standard Version
Having heard something, the fool suffers birth pangs like a woman in labor with a child.

Contemporary English Version
It's harder for a fool not to repeat gossip, than for a woman in labor not to give birth

New American Bible
Having heard something, the fool goes into labor, like a woman giving birth to a child.

Douay-Rheims Bible
At the hearing of a word the fool is in travail, as a woman groaning in the bringing forth a child.

At the hearing of a word the fool is in travail, as a woman groaning in the bringing forth a child.

Sirach 19:9
For he will hearken to thee, and will watch thee, and as it were defending thy sin he will hate thee, and so will he be with thee always.

Sirach 19:10
Hast thou heard a word against thy neighbour? let it die within thee, trusting that it will not burst thee.

Sirach 19:12
As an arrow that sticketh in a man's thigh: so is a word in the heart of a fool.

Sirach 19:13
Reprove a friend, lest he may not have understood, and say: I did it not: or if he did it, that he may do it no more.