Good News Translation
My child, don't get involved in too many things. If you try to do too much, you will suffer for it. You won't be able to finish your work, and you won't be able to get away from it either.

New Revised Standard Version
My child, do not busy yourself with many matters; if you multiply activities, you will not be held blameless. If you pursue, you will not overtake, and by fleeing you will not escape.

Contemporary English Version
Students, don't let yourself become too busy. If you do, you will sin and not find success or escape trouble.

New American Bible
My son, why increase your anxiety, since whoever is greedy for wealth will not be blameless? Even if you chase after it, you will never overtake it; and by fleeing you will not escape.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My son, meddle not with many matters: and if thou be rich, thou shalt not be free from sin: for if thou pursue after thou shalt not overtake; and if thou run before thou shalt not escape.

My son, meddle not with many matters: and if thou be rich, thou shalt not be free from sin: for if thou pursue after thou shalt not overtake; and if thou run before thou shalt not escape.

Sirach 11:8
Before thou hear, answer not a word: and interrupt not others in the midst of their discourse.

Sirach 11:9
Strive not in a matter which doth not concern thee, and sit not in judgment with sinners.

Sirach 11:11
There is an ungodly man that laboureth, and maketh haste, and is in sorrow, and is so much the more in want.

Sirach 11:12
Again, there is an inactive man that wanteth help, is very weak in ability, and full of poverty: