Sirach 34:5
Print
Divinations, omens, and dreams are empty. The mind has fantasies, just like a woman in labor does.
Deceitful divinations and lying omens and the dreams of evildoers, are vanity:
Dreams, divination, and omens are all nonsense. You see in them only what you want to see.
Divination, omens, and dreams are unreal; what you already expect, the mind fantasizes.
Divinations, omens, and dreams are all unreal; the mind portrays what you already expect.
Divinations and omens and dreams are unreal, and like a woman in labour, the mind has fantasies.
Divinations and omens and dreams are unreal, and like a woman in labour, the mind has fantasies.
Divinations and omens and dreams are unreal, and like a woman in labor, the mind has fantasies.
Divinations and omens and dreams are unreal, and like a woman in labor the mind has fantasies.
Divinations and omens and dreams are folly, and like a woman in travail the mind has fancies.
Divinations and omens and dreams are folly, and like a woman in travail the mind has fancies.
False divining of error, and false divinings by chittering (or chattering) of birds, and dreams of witches, (all) is vanity. And as the heart of a woman travailing of child, thine heart suffereth fantasies; [Divining of error, and divining by chittering of birds, leasings, and swevens of evil-doing men, (all) is vanity. And as of the woman bearing child, thine heart suffereth fantasies;]
Common English Bible (CEB) Copyright © 2011 by Common English Bible; Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA) Public Domain (Why are modern Bible translations copyrighted?); Good News Translation (GNT) Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition) © 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved. For more information about GNT, visit www.bibles.com and www.gnt.bible.; New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE) Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the New American Bible, revised edition © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. ; New Catholic Bible (NCB) Copyright © 2019 by Catholic Book Publishing Corp. All rights reserved.; New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA) New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.; New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE) New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicised Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993, 1995 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.; New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.; New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE) New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.; Revised Standard Version (RSV) Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1946, 1952, and 1971 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.; Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE) The Revised Standard Version of the Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1965, 1966 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.; Wycliffe Bible (WYC) 2001 by Terence P. Noble