Good News Translation
Meddlers have caused faithful wives to be divorced, robbed of everything they had worked for.

New Revised Standard Version
Slander has driven virtuous women from their homes, and deprived them of the fruit of their toil.

Contemporary English Version
Because of lies others told, faithful, hard-working wives have been divorced and have lost everything

New American Bible
A meddlesome tongue drives virtuous women from their homes, and robs them of the fruit of their toil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The whisperer and the double tongue is accursed: for he hath troubled many that were at peace.

The whisperer and the double tongue is accursed: for he hath troubled many that were at peace.

Sirach 28:13
A hasty contention kindleth a fire and a hasty quarrel sheddeth blood and a tongue that beareth witness bringeth death.

Sirach 28:14
If thou blow the spark, it shall burn as a fire: and if thou spit upon it, it shall be quenched: both come out of the mouth.

Sirach 28:16
The tongue of a third person hath disquieted many, and scattered them from nation to nation.

Sirach 28:17
It hath destroyed the strong cities of the rich, and hath overthrown the houses of great men.