Good News Translation
Avoid sin as if it were a snake. If you get too near, it will sink its teeth into your soul like a lion, and destroy you.

New Revised Standard Version
Flee from sin as from a snake; for if you approach sin, it will bite you. Its teeth are lion’s teeth, and can destroy human lives.

Contemporary English Version
Sin is a deadly snake with lion's fangs. Stay away! If you come close you will be bitten.

New American Bible
Flee from sin as from a serpent that will bite you if you go near it; Its teeth, lion’s teeth, destroying human lives.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Flee from sins as from the face of a serpent: for if thou comest near them, they will take hold of thee.

Flee from sins as from the face of a serpent: for if thou comest near them, they will take hold of thee.

Sirach 20:33
Better is he that hideth his folly, than the man that hideth his wisdom.

Sirach 21:1
My son, hast thou sinned? do so no more: but for thy former sins also pray that they may be forgiven thee.

Sirach 21:3
The teeth thereof are the teeth of a lion, killing the souls of men.

Sirach 21:4
All iniquity is like a two-edged sword, there is no remedy for the wound thereof.