Good News Translation
So help your neighbor as much as you can, but protect yourself against the dangers involved.

New Revised Standard Version
Assist your neighbor to the best of your ability, but be careful not to fall yourself.

Contemporary English Version
Be careful! There is danger when you guarantee a loan, but you have to help a friend as much as you can.

New American Bible
Help your neighbor according to your means, but take care lest you fall yourself.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sinner and the unclean fleeth from his surety.

The sinner and the unclean fleeth from his surety.

Sirach 29:18
A good man is surety for his neighbour: and he that hath lost shame, will leave him to himself.

Sirach 29:19
Forget not the kindness of thy surety: for he hath given his life for thee.

Sirach 29:21
A sinner attributeth to himself the goods of his surety: and he that is of an unthankful mind will leave him that delivered him.

Sirach 29:22
A man is surety for his neighbour: and when he hath lost all shame, he shall forsake him.