New Revised Standard Version
Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of a gift never given.

Contemporary English Version
Broken promises are worse than rain clouds that don't bring rain.

New American Bible
Clouds and wind but no rain— the one who boasts of a gift not given.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As clouds, and wind, when no rain followeth, so is the man that boasteth, and doth not fulfil his promises.

As clouds, and wind, when no rain followeth, so is the man that boasteth, and doth not fulfil his promises.

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Proverbs 20:6 Many men are called merciful: but who shall find a faithful man?

1 Kings 22:11 And Sedecias, the son of Chanaana, made himself horns of iron, and said: Thus saith the Lord: With these shalt thou push Syria, till thou destroy it.

Luke 14:11 Because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Luke 18:10-14 Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a Pharisee and the other a publican. . . .

2 Corinthians 11:13-18,31 For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. . . .

2 Peter 2:15-19 Leaving the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam of Bosor who loved the wages of iniquity, . . .

Jude 1:12,13,16 These are spots in their banquets, feasting together without fear, feeding themselves: clouds without water, which are carried about by winds: trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots: . . .