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. Contemporary English Version 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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