Good News Translation
My children, listen to what I have to say about proper speech; do as I teach you and you will never get trapped.

New Revised Standard Version
Listen, my children, to instruction concerning the mouth; the one who observes it will never be caught.

Contemporary English Version
Students, if you listen to me and control what you say, your words cannot trap you.

New American Bible
Listen, my children, to instruction concerning the mouth, for whoever keeps it will not be ensnared.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth, and he that will keep it shall not perish by his lips, nor be brought to fall into most wicked works.

Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth, and he that will keep it shall not perish by his lips, nor be brought to fall into most wicked works.

Sirach 23:5
Give me not haughtiness of my eyes, and turn away from me all coveting.

Sirach 23:6
Take from me the greediness of the belly, and let not the lusts of the flesh take hold of me, and give me not over to a shameless and foolish mind.

Sirach 23:8
A sinner is caught in his own vanity, and the proud and the evil speakers shall fall thereby.

Sirach 23:9
Let not thy mouth be accustomed to swearing: for in it there are many falls.