Good News Translation
A gossip ruins his own character, and everyone in the neighborhood hates him.

New Revised Standard Version
A whisperer degrades himself and is hated in his neighborhood.

Contemporary English Version
If you spread gossip, your character will be ruined and your neighbors will hate you.

New American Bible
Slanderers sully themselves, and are hated by their neighbors.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The lips of the unwise will be telling foolish things: but the words of the wise shall be weighed in a balance.

The lips of the unwise will be telling foolish things: but the words of the wise shall be weighed in a balance.

Sirach 21:26
A fool will peep through the window into the house: but he that is well taught will stand without.

Sirach 21:27
It is the folly of a man to hearken at the door: and a wise man will be grieved with the disgrace.

Sirach 21:29
The heart of fools is in their mouth: and the mouth of wise men is in their heart.

Sirach 21:30
While the ungodly curseth the devil, he curseth his own soul.