Good News Translation
Listen to what the poor have to say, and answer them politely.

New Revised Standard Version
Give a hearing to the poor, and return their greeting politely.

Contemporary English Version
When the poor greet you, be polite and greet them in return.

New American Bible
Give a hearing to the poor, and return their greeting with deference;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Bow down thy ear cheerfully to the poor, and pay what thou owest, and answer him peaceable words with mildness.

Bow down thy ear cheerfully to the poor, and pay what thou owest, and answer him peaceable words with mildness.

Sirach 4:6
For the prayer of him that curseth thee in the bitterness of his soul, shall be heard, for he that made him will hear him.

Sirach 4:7
Make thyself affable to the congregation of the poor, and humble thy soul to the ancient, and bow thy head to a great man.

Sirach 4:9
Deliver him that suffereth wrong out of the hand of the proud: and be not fainthearted in thy soul.

Sirach 4:10
In judging be merciful to the fatherless as a father, and as a husband to their mother.