Good News Translation
When a person with good judgment speaks, he wins friends. A stupid person, though, can shower compliments on everybody, and it won't help him a bit.

New Revised Standard Version
The wise make themselves beloved by only few words, but the courtesies of fools are wasted.

Contemporary English Version
People love to hear wise people speak. But fools, though polite, are still fools,

New American Bible
The wise make themselves beloved by a few words, but the courtesies of fools are wasted.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A man wise in words shall make himself beloved: but the graces of fools shall be poured out.

A man wise in words shall make himself beloved: but the graces of fools shall be poured out.

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.

Sirach 20:14
The gift of the fool shall do thee no good: for his eyes are sevenfold.

Sirach 20:15
He will give a few things, and upbraid much: and the opening of his mouth is the kindling of a fire.