Good News Translation
Never praise anyone before you hear him talk; that is the real test.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not praise anyone before he speaks, for this is the way people are tested.

Contemporary English Version
So don't start praising people, until you hear what they say.

New American Bible
Praise no one before he speaks, for it is then that people are tested.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As the dressing of a tree sheweth the fruit thereof, so a word out of the thought of the heart of man.

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

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.

Sirach 27:8
Praise not a man before he speaketh, for this is the trial of men.

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.