Good News Translation
Well, be just as careful with what you say. Weigh every word, and have a lock ready for your mouth.

New Revised Standard Version
so make a door and a bolt for your mouth.

Contemporary English Version
Be just as careful to guard what you say. Always think before you speak, and know when to be silent,

New American Bible
As you lock up your silver and gold, so make balances and scales for your words.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The death thereof is a most evil death: and hell is preferable to it.

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

Sirach 28:23
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 28:24
For its yoke is a yoke of iron: and its bands are bands of brass.

Sirach 28:26
Its continuance shall not be for a long time, but it shall possess the ways of the unjust: and the just shall not be burnt with its flame.

Sirach 28:27
They that forsake God shall fall into it, and it shall burn in them, and shall not be quenched, and it shall be sent upon them as a lion, and as a leopard it shall tear them.