Good News Translation
Exchange greetings with many, but take advice from only one person out of a thousand.

New Revised Standard Version
Let those who are friendly with you be many, but let your advisers be one in a thousand.

Contemporary English Version
Be friendly with everyone, but only listen to advice from those few you can trust.

New American Bible
Let those who are friendly to you be many, but one in a thousand your confidant.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be in peace with many, but let one of a thousand be thy counsellor.

Be in peace with many, but let one of a thousand be thy counsellor.

Sirach 6:4
For a wicked soul shall destroy him that hath it, and maketh him to be a joy to his enemies, and shall lead him into the lot of the wicked.

Sirach 6:5
A sweet word multiplieth friends, and appeaseth enemies, and a gracious tongue in a good man aboundeth.

Sirach 6:7
If thou wouldst get a friend, try him before thou takest him, and do not credit him easily.

Sirach 6:8
For there is a friend for his own occasion, and he will not abide in the day of thy trouble.