Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation What is unreal can no more produce something real than what is dirty can produce something clean. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge What can be made clean by the unclean? and what truth can come from that which is false? Sirach 34:2The 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. |