Good News Translation
A proud person is a decoy to lure you into danger; like a spy, he will look for your weaknesses.

New Revised Standard Version
Like a decoy partridge in a cage, so is the mind of the proud, and like spies they observe your weakness;

Contemporary English Version
as bird hunters use decoys to trap quails. They watch you like spies, waiting for some mistake

New American Bible
Like a decoy partridge in a cage, so is the heart of the proud, and like a spy they will pick out the weak spots.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Praise not any man before death, for a man is known by his children.

Praise not any man before death, for a man is known by his children.

Sirach 11:28
For it is easy before God in the day of death to reward every one according to his ways.

Sirach 11:29
The affliction of an hour maketh one forget great delights, and in the end of a man is the disclosing of his works.

Sirach 11:31
Bring not every man into thy house: for many are the snares of the deceitful.

Sirach 11:32
For as corrupted bowels send forth stinking breath, and as the partridge is brought into the cage, and as the roe into the snare: so also is the heart of the proud, and as a spy that looketh on the fall of his neighbour.