Good News Translation
Influential people have lost their homes over it and have had to go wandering in foreign countries.

New Revised Standard Version
Being surety has ruined many who were prosperous, and has tossed them about like waves of the sea; it has driven the influential into exile, and they have wandered among foreign nations.

Contemporary English Version
People of wealth and power have often become poor and homeless, drifting from place to place in foreign countries, their wealth taken in payment for loans they guaranteed.

New American Bible
Going surety has ruined many who were prosperous and tossed them about like waves of the sea; It has exiled the prominent and sent them wandering through foreign lands.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A good man is surety for his neighbour: and he that hath lost shame, will leave him to himself.

A good man is surety for his neighbour: and he that hath lost shame, will leave him to himself.

Sirach 29:16
Better than the shield of the mighty, and better than the spear:

Sirach 29:17
It shall fight for thee against thy enemy.

Sirach 29:19
Forget not the kindness of thy surety: for he hath given his life for thee.

Sirach 29:20
The sinner and the unclean fleeth from his surety.