Good News Translation
A person can be rebuked in the wrong way; it may be wiser to keep quiet than to speak.

New Revised Standard Version
There is a rebuke that is untimely, and there is the person who is wise enough to keep silent.

Contemporary English Version
If you are smart, you will know when to keep quiet and when to criticize.

New American Bible
There is an admonition that is untimely, but the silent person is the wise one.

Douay-Rheims Bible
How much better is it to reprove, than to be angry, and not to hinder him that confesseth in prayer.

How much better is it to reprove, than to be angry, and not to hinder him that confesseth in prayer.

Sirach 19:27
The attire of the body, and the laughter of the teeth, and the gait of the man, shew what he is.

Sirach 19:28
There is a lying rebuke in the anger of an injurious man: and there is a judgment that is not allowed to be good: and there is one that holdeth his peace, he is wise.

Sirach 20:2
The lust of an eunuch shall deflour a young maiden:

Sirach 20:3
So is he that by violence executeth of the unwise.