Good News Translation
You can lose all your self-respect by being reluctant to speak up in the presence of stupidity.

New Revised Standard Version
One may lose his life through shame, or lose it because of human respect.

Contemporary English Version
Have a little self-respect and don't act like a fool, or you may risk disaster.

New American Bible
There is a person who is destroyed through shame, and ruined by foolish posturing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A parable coming out of a fool's mouth shall be rejected: for he doth not speak it in due season.

A parable coming out of a fool's mouth shall be rejected: for he doth not speak it in due season.

Sirach 20:20
The slipping of a false tongue is as one that falleth on the pavement: so the fall of the wicked shall come speedily.

Sirach 20:21
A man without grace is as a vain fable, it shall be continually in the mouth of the unwise.

Sirach 20:23
There is that is hindered from sinning through want, and in his rest he shall be pricked.

Sirach 20:24
There is that will destroy his own soul through shamefacedness, and by occasion of an unwise person he will destroy it: and by respect of person he will destroy himself.