Good News Translation
Anyone who borrows money to build a house is just collecting stones for his own tomb.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever builds his house with other people’s money is like one who gathers stones for his burial mound.

Contemporary English Version
Borrowing to build your house is like gathering stones to mark your own grave.

New American Bible
Those who build their houses with someone else’s money are like those who collect stones for their funeral mounds.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that is mighty by a bold tongue is known afar off, but a wise man knoweth to slip by him.

He that is mighty by a bold tongue is known afar off, but a wise man knoweth to slip by him.

Sirach 21:6
The prayer out of the mouth of the poor shall reach the ears of God, and judgment shall come for him speedily.

Sirach 21:7
He that hateth to be reproved walketh in the trace of a sinner: and he that feareth God will turn to his own heart.

Sirach 21:9
He that buildeth his house at other men's charges, is as he that gathereth himself stones to build in the winter.

Sirach 21:10
The congregation of sinners is like tow heaped together, and the end of them is a flame of fire.