Good News Translation
Take advantage of opportunities, but guard yourself against evil. Don't underrate yourself.

New Revised Standard Version
Watch for the opportune time, and beware of evil, and do not be ashamed to be yourself.

Contemporary English Version
Be on your guard against evil, but use every opportunity for doing good. And don't be ashamed of who you are.

New American Bible
My son, watch for the right time; fear what is evil; do not bring shame upon yourself.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then she will strengthen him, and make a straight way to him, and give him joy,

Then she will strengthen him, and make a straight way to him, and give him joy,

Sirach 4:18
For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him.

Sirach 4:19
She will bring upon him fear and dread and trial: and she will scourge him with the affliction of her discipline, till she try him by her laws, and trust his soul.

Sirach 4:21
And will disclose her secrets to him, and will heap upon him treasures of knowledge and understanding of justice.

Sirach 4:22
But if he go astray, she will forsake him, and deliver him into the hands of his enemy.