Good News Translation
When you make friends, don't be too quick to trust them; make sure that they have proved themselves.

New Revised Standard Version
When you gain friends, gain them through testing, and do not trust them hastily.

Contemporary English Version
Make sure they are true friends before you trust them,

New American Bible
When you gain friends, gain them through testing, and do not be quick to trust them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou wouldst get a friend, try him before thou takest him, and do not credit him easily.

If thou wouldst get a friend, try him before thou takest him, and do not credit him easily.

Sirach 6:5
A sweet word multiplieth friends, and appeaseth enemies, and a gracious tongue in a good man aboundeth.

Sirach 6:6
Be in peace with many, but let one of a thousand be thy counsellor.

Sirach 6:8
For there is a friend for his own occasion, and he will not abide in the day of thy trouble.

Sirach 6:9
And there is a friend that turneth to enmity; and there is a friend that will disclose hatred and strife and reproaches.