Good News Translation
You should not lend anything to someone more powerful than you. If you do, you might as well consider it lost.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not lend to one who is stronger than you; but if you do lend anything, count it as a loss.

Contemporary English Version
Never lend to someone who is stronger than you; if you make such a loan, don't count on being repaid.

New American Bible
Do not lend to one more powerful than yourself; or if you lend, count it as lost.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For of them thou shalt learn understanding, and to give an answer in time of need.

For of them thou shalt learn understanding, and to give an answer in time of need.

Sirach 8:10
For of them thou shalt learn wisdom, and instruction of understanding, and to serve great men without blame.

Sirach 8:11
Let not the discourse of the ancients escape thee, for they have learned of their fathers:

Sirach 8:13
Kindle not the coals of sinners by rebuking them, lest thou be burnt with the flame of the fire of their sins.

Sirach 8:14
Stand not against the face of an injurious person, lest he sit as a spy to entrap thee in thy words.