Good News Translation
Don't be arrogant; you may suffer a fall and be disgraced. The Lord will reveal your secrets and humble you in front of everyone in the synagogue, because you did not come there with reverence for the Lord, but with a heart full of hypocrisy.

Contemporary English Version
If you boast and then fail, you will be disgraced. And if you only pretend to worship the Lord, he will bring you down and show everyone that you are a fake.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A good understanding will hide his words for a time, and the lips of many shall declare his wisdom.

A good understanding will hide his words for a time, and the lips of many shall declare his wisdom.

Sirach 1:28
For he that is without fear, cannot be justified: for the wrath of his high spirits is his ruin.

Sirach 1:29
A patient man shall bear for a time, and afterwards joy shall be restored to him.

Sirach 1:31
In the treasures of wisdom is the signification of discipline:

Sirach 1:32
But the worship of God is an abomination to a sinner.