Good News Translation
Generosity will sometimes do you no good, but at other times it will repay you double.

New Revised Standard Version
There is the gift that profits you nothing, and the gift to be paid back double.

Contemporary English Version
Often a gift isn't really helpful, and when some people give, they expect to be repaid twice what the gift is worth.

New American Bible
There is the gift that profits you nothing, and there is the gift that must be paid back double.

Douay-Rheims Bible
There is a gift that is not profitable: and there is a gift, the recompense of which is double.

There is a gift that is not profitable: and there is a gift, the recompense of which is double.

Sirach 20:8
He that useth many words shall hurt his own soul: and he that taketh authority to himself unjustly shall be hated.

Sirach 20:9
There is success in evil things to a man without discipline, and there is a finding that turneth to loss.

Sirach 20:11
There is an abasement because of glory: and there is one that shall lift up his head from a low estate.

Sirach 20:12
There is that buyeth much for a small price, and restoreth the same sevenfold.