Good News Translation
Going from house to house is a miserable way to live. Anywhere you go, you don't dare speak.

New Revised Standard Version
It is a miserable life to go from house to house; as a guest you should not open your mouth;

Contemporary English Version
You will always be miserable and will not dare say a word, if you have to depend on others for food and a place to sleep.

New American Bible
It is a miserable life to go from house to house, for where you are a guest you dare not open your mouth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It hath made powerful men to go from place to place round about, and they have wandered in strange countries.

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

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

Sirach 29:23
Evil suretyship hath undone many of good estate, and hath tossed them as a wave of the sea.

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.

Sirach 29:26
Recover thy neighbour according to thy power, and take heed to thyself that thou fall not.