Good News Translation
Your talk shows your faults; it is like a sieve that separates out the rubbish.

New Revised Standard Version
When a sieve is shaken, the refuse appears; so do a person’s faults when he speaks.

Contemporary English Version
Impurities can easily be seen after flour is sifted and after someone speaks.

New American Bible
When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear; so do people’s faults when they speak.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Unless thou hold thyself diligently in the fear of the Lord, thy house shall quickly be overthrown.

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

Sirach 27:2
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 27:3
Sin shall be destroyed with the sinner.

Sirach 27:5
As when one sifteth with a sieve, the dust will remain: so will the perplexity of a man in his thoughts.

Sirach 27:6
The furnace trieth the potter's vessels, and the trial of affliction just men.