Sirach 34:1
Good News Translation
Foolish people are deceived by vain hopes, and dreams get them all excited.

New Revised Standard Version
The senseless have vain and false hopes, and dreams give wings to fools.

Contemporary English Version
Empty hopes deceive ignorant people, and dreams lead fools to be even more foolish.

New American Bible
Empty and false are the hopes of the senseless, and dreams give wings to fools.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.

Sirach 33:32
If thou hurt him unjustly, he will run away:

Sirach 33:33
And if he rise up and depart, thou knowest not whom to ask, and in what way to seek him.

Sirach 34:2
The man that giveth heed to lying visions, is like to him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind.

Sirach 34:3
The vision of dreams is the resemblance of one thing to another: as when a man's likeness is before the face of a man.

Context
Sirach 34
1The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools. 2The man that giveth heed to lying visions, is like to him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind.…
Cross References
Sirach 33:32
If thou hurt him unjustly, he will run away:

Sirach 33:33
And if he rise up and depart, thou knowest not whom to ask, and in what way to seek him.

Sirach 34:2
The man that giveth heed to lying visions, is like to him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind.

Sirach 34:3
The vision of dreams is the resemblance of one thing to another: as when a man's likeness is before the face of a man.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 33:33
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