Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation A person who pays any attention at all to dreams is like someone who tries to catch shadows or chase the wind. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge The man that giveth heed to lying visions, is like to him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. Sirach 33:33And if he rise up and depart, thou knowest not whom to ask, and in what way to seek him. Sirach 34:1 The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools. 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. Sirach 34:4 What can be made clean by the unclean? and what truth can come from that which is false? 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. 3The vision of dreams is the resemblance of one thing to another: as when a man's likeness is before the face of a man.… Cross References Sirach 33:33 And if he rise up and depart, thou knowest not whom to ask, and in what way to seek him. Sirach 34:1 The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools. 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. Sirach 34:4 What can be made clean by the unclean? and what truth can come from that which is false? |
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