Good News Translation
It is hard to remove a peg that is stuck between two stones of a house, and it is just as hard to remove dishonesty from buying and selling.

New Revised Standard Version
As a stake is driven firmly into a fissure between stones, so sin is wedged in between selling and buying.

Contemporary English Version
But sin is stuck tightly between buying and selling, just like a wooden peg hammered between two stones in a wall.

New American Bible
A stake will be driven between fitted stones— sin will be wedged in between buying and selling.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As a stake sticketh fast in the midst of the joining of stones, so also in the midst of selling and buying, sin shall stick fast.

As a stake sticketh fast in the midst of the joining of stones, so also in the midst of selling and buying, sin shall stick fast.

Sirach 26:28
Two sorts of callings have appeared to me hard and dangerous: a merchant is hardly free from negligence: and a huckster shall not be justified from the sins of the lips.

Sirach 27:1
Through poverty many have sinned: and he that seeketh to be enriched, turneth away his eye.

Sirach 27:3
Sin shall be destroyed with the sinner.

Sirach 27:4
Unless thou hold thyself diligently in the fear of the Lord, thy house shall quickly be overthrown.