Good News Translation
A shameless person can make begging sound sweet, but something inside him burns.

New Revised Standard Version
In the mouth of the shameless begging is sweet, but it kindles a fire inside him.

Contemporary English Version
No matter what beggars say, they really are ashamed of what they do.

New American Bible
In the mouth of the shameless begging is sweet, but within him it burns like fire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The life of him that looketh toward another man's table is not to be counted a life: for he feedeth his soul with another man's meat.

The life of him that looketh toward another man's table is not to be counted a life: for he feedeth his soul with another man's meat.

Sirach 40:28
The fear of the Lord is like a paradise of blessing, and they have covered it above all glory.

Sirach 40:29
My son, in thy lifetime be not indigent: for it is better to die than to want.

Sirach 40:31
But a man, well instructed and taught, will look to himself.

Sirach 40:32
Begging will be sweet in the mouth of the unwise, but in his belly there shall burn a fire.