Sirach 34:3
Good News Translation
What you see in a dream is no more real than the reflection of your face in a mirror.

New Revised Standard Version
What is seen in dreams is but a reflection, the likeness of a face looking at itself.

Contemporary English Version
Just as a mirror reflects your face, your dreams reflect your concerns.

New American Bible
What is seen in dreams is a reflection, the likeness of a face looking at itself.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 34:1
The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.

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 34:4
What can be made clean by the unclean? and what truth can come from that which is false?

Sirach 34:5
Deceitful divinations and lying omens and the dreams of evildoers, are vanity:

Context
Sirach 34
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. 4What can be made clean by the unclean? and what truth can come from that which is false?…
Cross References
Sirach 34:1
The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.

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 34:4
What can be made clean by the unclean? and what truth can come from that which is false?

Sirach 34:5
Deceitful divinations and lying omens and the dreams of evildoers, are vanity:



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 34:2
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