New Revised Standard Version
Whoever tells a story to a fool tells it to a drowsy man; and at the end he will say, “What is it?”

Contemporary English Version
Tell them a story, and they will doze off; and afterwards, they will ask, "So what's your point?"

New American Bible
Whoever talks with a fool talks to someone asleep; when it is over, he says, “What was that?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Weep for the dead, for his light hath failed: and weep for the fool, for his understanding faileth.

Weep for the dead, for his light hath failed: and weep for the fool, for his understanding faileth.

Sirach 22:8
He that telleth a word to him that heareth not, is like one that waketh a man out of a deep sleep.

Sirach 22:9
He speaketh with one that is asleep, who uttereth wisdom to a fool: and in the end of the discourse he saith: Who is this?

Sirach 22:11
Weep but a little for the dead, for he is at rest.

Sirach 22:12
For the wicked life of a wicked fool is worse than death.