Good News Translation
If you promise a friend something because you are too bashful to say no, you're needlessly making an enemy.

New Revised Standard Version
Another out of shame makes promises to a friend, and so makes an enemy for nothing.

Contemporary English Version
Broken promises turn friends into enemies, so do not make promises that you cannot keep.

New American Bible
There is one who promises a friend out of shame, and so makes an enemy needlessly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
There is that is hindered from sinning through want, and in his rest he shall be pricked.

There is that is hindered from sinning through want, and in his rest he shall be pricked.

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

Sirach 20:22
A parable coming out of a fool's mouth shall be rejected: for he doth not speak it in due season.

Sirach 20:24
There is that will destroy his own soul through shamefacedness, and by occasion of an unwise person he will destroy it: and by respect of person he will destroy himself.

Sirach 20:25
There is that for bashfulness promiseth to his friend, and maketh him his enemy for nothing.