Good News Translation
Get to know the people around you as well as you can, and take advice only from those who are qualified to give it.

New Revised Standard Version
As much as you can, aim to know your neighbors, and consult with the wise.

Contemporary English Version
Do your best to know your close neighbors, but only ask the wise ones for advice.

New American Bible
As best you can, answer your neighbor, and associate with the wise.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Forsake not an old friend, for the new will not be like to him.

Forsake not an old friend, for the new will not be like to him.

Sirach 9:12
Sit not at all with another man's wife, nor repose upon the bed with her:

Sirach 9:13
And strive not with her over wine, lest thy heart decline towards her and by thy blood thou fall into destruction.

Sirach 9:15
A new friend is as new wine: it shall grow old, and thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Sirach 9:16
Envy not the glory and riches of a sinner: for thou knowest not what his ruin shall be.