Good News Translation
The way you think shows your character just as surely as a kiln shows any flaws in the pottery being fired.

New Revised Standard Version
The kiln tests the potter’s vessels; so the test of a person is in his conversation.

Contemporary English Version
The quality of a clay dish is seen in the heat of the pottery furnace, just as our true character is seen in what we say.

New American Bible
The furnace tests the potter’s vessels; the test of a person is in conversation.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As when one sifteth with a sieve, the dust will remain: so will the perplexity of a man in his thoughts.

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

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.

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

Sirach 27:7
As the dressing of a tree sheweth the fruit thereof, so a word out of the thought of the heart of man.