Good News Translation
Speak wisely, and you will get ahead in the world. Influential people appreciate good sense.

New Revised Standard Version
The wise person advances himself by his words, and one who is sensible pleases the great.

Contemporary English Version
If you are wise and want to succeed, you will try to please those in power.

New American Bible
The wise gain promotion with few words, the prudent please the great.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A thief is better than a man that is always lying: but both of them shall inherit destruction.

A thief is better than a man that is always lying: but both of them shall inherit destruction.

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

Sirach 20:26
A lie is a foul blot in a man, and yet it will be continually in the mouth of men without discipline.

Sirach 20:28
The manners of lying men are without honour: and their confusion is with them without ceasing.

Sirach 20:29
A wise man shall advance himself with his words, and a prudent man shall please the great ones.