Good News Translation
and will be a better defense against your enemies than the strongest shield or stoutest spear.

New Revised Standard Version
better than a stout shield and a sturdy spear, it will fight for you against the enemy.

Contemporary English Version
and they give better protection than the strongest shields and spears.

New American Bible
Better than a mighty shield and a sturdy spear it will fight for you against the enemy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lose thy money for thy brother and thy friend: and hide it not under a stone to be lost.

Lose thy money for thy brother and thy friend: and hide it not under a stone to be lost.

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.

Sirach 29:14
Place thy treasure in the commandments of the most High, and it shall bring thee more profit than gold.

Sirach 29:15
Shut up alms in the heart of the poor, and it shall obtain help for thee against all evil.