Other translations
New Catholic Bible
Just as you enclose your property with a hedge of thorns and lock up your silver and gold,
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
As you fence in your property with thorns, so make a door and a bolt for your mouth. As you lock up your silver and gold, so make balances and scales for your words.
Good News Translation®
Don't you fence in your property? Don't you lock up your money?
Wycliffe Bible
Beset thine ears with thorns, and do not thou hear a wicked tongue; and make thou doors to (or for) thy mouth, and locks to (or for) thine ears. Well thou, or temper thou, thy gold, and thy silver; [Hedge thine ears with thorns, and do thou not hear the shrewd (or depraved) tongue; and to thy mouth make thou doors, and locks to thine ears. Thy gold and thy silver melt together;]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
See that you fence in your property with thorns, lock up your silver and gold,
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Look! Fence in your property with thorns, and make a door and a bolt for your mouth. Lock up your silver and gold, and make balances and scales for your words.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
As you fence in your property with thorns, so make a door and a bolt for your mouth. As you lock up your silver and gold, so make balances and scales for your words.
Common English Bible © 2011
Watch out! Fence in your property with thorns,
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
As you fence in your property with thorns, so make a door and a bolt for your mouth.
Revised Standard Version
See that you fence in your property with thorns, lock up your silver and gold,
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
As you fence in your property with thorns, so make a door and a bolt for your mouth. As you lock up your silver and gold, so make balances and scales for your words.