Good News Translation
Being denied hospitality or having a moneylender hound you--these are hard things for any sensitive person to endure.

New Revised Standard Version
It is hard for a sensible person to bear scolding about lodging and the insults of the moneylender.

Contemporary English Version
Such comments are insulting to a sensitive person, just like those of a lender demanding payment of a loan.

New American Bible
Painful things to a sensitive person are rebuke as a parasite and insults from creditors.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Better is the poor man's fare under a roof of boards, than sumptuous cheer abroad in another man's house.

Better is the poor man's fare under a roof of boards, than sumptuous cheer abroad in another man's house.

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

Sirach 29:27
The chief thing for man's life is water and bread, and clothing, and a house to cover shame.

Sirach 29:29
Be contented with little instead of much, and thou shalt not hear the reproach of going abroad.

Sirach 29:30
It is a miserable life to go as a guest from house to house: for where a man is a stranger, he shall not deal confidently, nor open his mouth.