Good News Translation
An impolite person is like one of those off-color stories that ignorant people are always telling.

New Revised Standard Version
A coarse person is like an inappropriate story, continually on the lips of the ignorant.

Contemporary English Version
A rude person is disgusting, just like the dirty stories ignorant people tell.

New American Bible
A coarse person, an untimely story; the ignorant are always ready to offer it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he doth not distribute with right understanding that which was to be had: in like manner also that which was not to be had.

For he doth not distribute with right understanding that which was to be had: in like manner also that which was not to be had.

Sirach 20:17
A fool shall have no friend, and there shall be no thanks for his good deeds.

Sirach 20:18
For they that eat his bread, are of a false tongue. How often, and how many will laugh him to scorn!

Sirach 20:20
The slipping of a false tongue is as one that falleth on the pavement: so the fall of the wicked shall come speedily.

Sirach 20:21
A man without grace is as a vain fable, it shall be continually in the mouth of the unwise.