Good News Translation
Nothing is brighter than the sun, but even the sun's light fails during an eclipse. How much easier it is for human thoughts to be eclipsed by evil!

New Revised Standard Version
What is brighter than the sun? Yet it can be eclipsed. So flesh and blood devise evil.

Contemporary English Version
If a thick dark cloud can hide the bright rays of the sun, then evil can just as easily darken our minds.

New American Bible
Is anything brighter than the sun? Yet it can be eclipsed. How worthless then the thoughts of flesh and blood!

Douay-Rheims Bible
He beholdeth the power of the height of heaven: and all men are earth and ashes.

He beholdeth the power of the height of heaven: and all men are earth and ashes.

Sirach 17:29
For all things cannot be in men, because the son of man is not immortal, and they are delighted with the vanity of evil.

Sirach 17:30
What is brighter than the sun; yet it shall be eclipsed. Or what is more wicked than that which flesh and blood hath invented? and this shall be reproved.

Sirach 18:1
He that liveth for ever created all things together. God only shall be justified, and he remaineth an invincible king for ever.

Sirach 18:2
Who is able to declare his works?