Good News Translation
If entertainment is being provided, don't keep up a steady conversation; it's the wrong time to show off your wit.

New Revised Standard Version
Where there is entertainment, do not pour out talk; do not display your cleverness at the wrong time.

Contemporary English Version
or other entertainment. That is not the right time for clever remarks. *

New American Bible
Where there is entertainment, do not pour out discourse, and do not display your wisdom at the wrong time.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Speak, thou that art elder: for it becometh thee,

Speak, thou that art elder: for it becometh thee,

Sirach 32:2
Have care of them, and so sit down, and when thou hast acquitted thyself of all thy charge, take thy place:

Sirach 32:3
That thou mayst rejoice for them, and receive a crown as an ornament of grace, and get the honour of the contribution.

Sirach 32:5
To speak the first word with careful knowledge, and hinder not music.

Sirach 32:6
Where there is no hearing, pour not out words, and be not lifted up out of season with thy wisdom.