Sirach 34:4
Good News Translation
What is unreal can no more produce something real than what is dirty can produce something clean.

New Revised Standard Version
From an unclean thing what can be clean? And from something false what can be true?

Contemporary English Version
Something clean cannot come from something dirty, and truth cannot come from a lie.

New American Bible
How can the unclean produce what is clean? How can the false produce what is true?

Douay-Rheims Bible
What can be made clean by the unclean? and what truth can come from that which is false?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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.

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

Sirach 34:6
And the heart fancieth as that of a woman in travail: except it be a vision sent forth from the most High, set not thy heart upon them.

Context
Sirach 34
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? 5Deceitful divinations and lying omens and the dreams of evildoers, are vanity:…
Cross References
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.

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

Sirach 34:6
And the heart fancieth as that of a woman in travail: except it be a vision sent forth from the most High, set not thy heart upon them.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

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