Other translations
New Catholic Bible
If you throw a stone at birds, you frighten them away; if you revile a friend, you destroy a friendship.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
One who throws a stone at birds scares them away, and one who reviles a friend destroys a friendship.
Good News Translation®
If you throw rocks at birds, you will scare them away; and if you insult a friend, you will break up the friendship.
Wycliffe Bible
He that casteth a stone to (or at) birds, shall cast down those; so and he that doeth wrong to a friend, departeth friendship. [Throwing a stone into fowls, throweth them down; so and that putteth reproof to a friend, loseth friendship.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
One who throws a stone at birds scares them away, and one who reviles a friend will break off the friendship.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
One who throws a stone at birds scares them away, and one who reviles a friend destroys a friendship.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
One who throws a stone at birds scares them away, and one who reviles a friend destroys a friendship.
Common English Bible © 2011
Whoever throws a stone at birds scares them off, and whoever insults a friend breaks up a friendship.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Whoever throws a stone at birds drives them away; whoever insults a friend breaks up the friendship.
Revised Standard Version
One who throws a stone at birds scares them away, and one who reviles a friend will break off the friendship.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
One who throws a stone at birds scares them away, and one who reviles a friend destroys a friendship.