Good News Translation
Honor can be followed by disgrace, but there are people who have risen from obscurity to places of honor.

New Revised Standard Version
There are losses for the sake of glory, and there are some who have raised their heads from humble circumstances.

Contemporary English Version
If you search for glory you may lose what you have, but success can come to those who had humble beginnings.

New American Bible
There is the loss for the sake of glory, and there is the one who rises above humble circumstances.

Douay-Rheims Bible
There is an abasement because of glory: and there is one that shall lift up his head from a low estate.

There is an abasement because of glory: and there is one that shall lift up his head from a low estate.

Sirach 20:9
There is success in evil things to a man without discipline, and there is a finding that turneth to loss.

Sirach 20:10
There is a gift that is not profitable: and there is a gift, the recompense of which is double.

Sirach 20:12
There is that buyeth much for a small price, and restoreth the same sevenfold.

Sirach 20:13
A man wise in words shall make himself beloved: but the graces of fools shall be poured out.