Good News Translation
When devout people talk, what they say always makes sense, but foolish people are always contradicting themselves.

New Revised Standard Version
The conversation of the godly is always wise, but the fool changes like the moon.

Contemporary English Version
Good people always speak wisely, but you never can tell what a fool will say next.

New American Bible
The conversation of the godly is always wisdom, but the fool changes like the moon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The lion always lieth in wait for prey: so do sins for them that work iniquities.

The lion always lieth in wait for prey: so do sins for them that work iniquities.

Sirach 27:9
If thou followest justice, thou shalt obtain her: and shalt put her on as a long robe of honour, and thou shalt dwell with her: and she shall protect thee for ever, and in the day of acknowledgment thou shalt find a strong foundation.

Sirach 27:10
Birds resort unto their like: so truth will return to them that practise her.

Sirach 27:12
A holy man continueth in wisdom as the sun: but a fool is changed as the moon.

Sirach 27:13
In the midst of the unwise keep in the word till its time: but be continually among men that think.