Good News Translation
If you throw rocks at birds, you will scare them away; and if you insult a friend, you will break up the friendship.

New Revised Standard Version
One who throws a stone at birds scares them away, and one who reviles a friend destroys a friendship.

Contemporary English Version
You can throw stones to frighten birds away, and you can end a friendship by tossing insults.

New American Bible
Whoever throws a stone at birds drives them away; whoever insults a friend breaks up the friendship.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The thought of him that is wise at all times, shall not be depraved by fear.

The thought of him that is wise at all times, shall not be depraved by fear.

Sirach 22:18
Sand and salt, and a mass of iron is easier to bear, than a man without sense, that is both foolish and wicked.

Sirach 22:19
A frame of wood bound together in the foundation of a building, shall not be loosed: so neither shall the heart that is established by advised counsel.

Sirach 22:21
As pales set in high places, and plasterings made without cost, will not stand against the face of the wind:

Sirach 22:22
So also a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool shall not resist against the violence of fear.