Sirach 34:5
Good News Translation
Dreams, divination, and omens are all nonsense. You see in them only what you want to see.

New Revised Standard Version
Divinations and omens and dreams are unreal, and like a woman in labor, the mind has fantasies.

Contemporary English Version
Dreams are meaningless, like something said by a fortuneteller, because they can mean anything you want them to.

New American Bible
Divination, omens, and dreams are unreal; what you already expect, the mind fantasizes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Deceitful divinations and lying omens and the dreams of evildoers, are vanity:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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?

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.

Sirach 34:7
For dreams have deceived many, and they have failed that put their trust in them.

Context
Sirach 34
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: 6And 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.…
Cross References
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?

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.

Sirach 34:7
For dreams have deceived many, and they have failed that put their trust in them.



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Sirach 34:4
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