Good News Translation
Be happy with what you have, even if it isn't very much, and don't listen to anyone who would insult your home and family.

New Revised Standard Version
Be content with little or much, and you will hear no reproach for being a guest.

Contemporary English Version
Be content with what you have, because you will be insulted if you live off others.

New American Bible
Whether little or much, be content with what you have: then you will hear no reproach as a parasite.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Evil suretyship hath undone many of good estate, and hath tossed them as a wave of the sea.

Evil suretyship hath undone many of good estate, and hath tossed them as a wave of the sea.

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.

Sirach 29:24
It hath made powerful men to go from place to place round about, and they have wandered in strange countries.

Sirach 29:25
A sinner that transgresseth the commandment of the Lord, shall fall into an evil suretyship: and he that undertaketh many things, shall fall into judgment.