Good News Translation
Its victims are those who have abandoned the Lord; once the fire of slander has been lit among them, it cannot be put out. Slander will pounce on them like a lion and tear them to pieces like a leopard.

New Revised Standard Version
Those who forsake the Lord will fall into its power; it will burn among them and will not be put out. It will be sent out against them like a lion; like a leopard it will mangle them.

Contemporary English Version
but those who reject him will be burned to ashes. And these cruel words are like lions and leopards, hunting down their victims and tearing them apart.

New American Bible
But those who forsake the Lord will fall victim to it, as it burns among them unquenchably; It will hurl itself against them like a lion, and like a leopard, it will tear them to pieces.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed is he that is defended from a wicked tongue, that hath not passed into the wrath thereof, and that hath not drawn the yoke thereof, and hath not been bound in its bands.

Blessed is he that is defended from a wicked tongue, that hath not passed into the wrath thereof, and that hath not drawn the yoke thereof, and hath not been bound in its bands.

Sirach 28:21
The stroke of a whip maketh a blue mark: but the stroke of the tongue will break the bones.

Sirach 28:22
Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not so many as have perished by their own tongue.

Sirach 28:24
For its yoke is a yoke of iron: and its bands are bands of brass.

Sirach 28:25
The death thereof is a most evil death: and hell is preferable to it.