Good News Translation
Many people have been ruined because of money, brought face-to-face with disaster.

New Revised Standard Version
Many have come to ruin because of gold, and their destruction has met them face to face.

Contemporary English Version
Because of gold, many lives have been ruined or have ended in destruction.

New American Bible
Many have come to ruin for the sake of gold, yet destruction lay before their very eyes;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Many have been brought to fall for gold, and the beauty thereof hath been their ruin.

Many have been brought to fall for gold, and the beauty thereof hath been their ruin.

Sirach 31:4
The poor man hath laboured in his low way of life, and in the end he is still poor.

Sirach 31:5
He that loveth gold, shall not be justified: and he that followeth after corruption, shall be filled with it.

Sirach 31:7
Gold is a stumblingblock to them that sacrifice to it: woe to them that eagerly follow after it, and every fool shall perish by it.

Sirach 31:8
Blessed is the rich man that is found without blemish: and that hath not gone after gold, nor put his trust in money nor in treasures.