Good News Translation
It is better to lose your money by helping a relative or a friend than to lose it by letting it rust away under a rock somewhere.

New Revised Standard Version
Lose your silver for the sake of a brother or a friend, and do not let it rust under a stone and be lost.

Contemporary English Version
Give away your silver to a brother or a friend; don't hide it under a rock, where it will rust.

New American Bible
Lose your money for relative or friend; do not hide it under a stone to rot.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Many have refused to lend, not out of wickedness, but they were afraid to be defrauded without cause.

Many have refused to lend, not out of wickedness, but they were afraid to be defrauded without cause.

Sirach 29:8
But if not, he will defraud him of his money, and he shall get him for an enemy without cause.

Sirach 29:9
And he will pay him with reproaches and curses, and instead of honour and good turn will repay him injuries.

Sirach 29:11
But yet towards the poor be thou more hearty, and delay not to shew him mercy.

Sirach 29:12
Help the poor because of the commandment: and send him not away empty handed because of his poverty.