DB1 | Dreams mean nothing. Sir.34.1-8 | KNSB Contents | notes| 34 | katapi NEW STUDY BIBLE | Passage | Old Testament in Greek (Septuagint) |
| 34 1 | A man of no understanding has vain and false hopes, and dreams give wings to fools. | Dreams mean nothing. Sir.34.1-8 | Κεναὶ ἐλπίδες καὶ ψευδεῖς ἀσυνέτῳ ἀνδρί, καὶ ἐνύπνια ἀναπτεροῦσιν ἄφρονας. |
| 2 | As one who catches at a shadow and pursues the wind, so is he who gives heed to dreams. | ὡς δρασσόμενος σκιᾶς καὶ διώκων ἄνεμον, οὕτως ὁ ἐπέχων ἐνυπνίοις· | |
| 3 | The vision of dreams is this against that, the likeness of a face confronting a face. | τοῦτο κατὰ τούτου ὅρασις ἐνυπνίων, κατέναντι προσώπου ὁμοίωμα προσώπου. | |
| 4 | From an unclean thing what will be made clean? And from something false what will be true? | ἀπὸ ἀκαθάρτου τί καθαρισθήσεται; καὶ ἀπὸ ψευδοῦς τί ἀληθεύσει; | |
| 5 | Divinations and omens and dreams are folly, and like a woman in travail the mind has fancies. | μαντεῖαι καὶ οἰωνισμοὶ καὶ ἐνύπνια μάταιά ἐστιν, καὶ ὡς ὠδινούσης φαντάζεται καρδία· | |
| 6 | Unless they are sent from the Most High as a visitation, do not give your mind to them. | ἐὰν μὴ παρὰ ὑψίστου ἀποσταλῇ ἐν ἐπισκοπῇ, μὴ δῷς εἰς αὐτὰ τὴν καρδίαν σου· | |
| 7 | For dreams have deceived many, and those who put their hope in them have failed. | πολλοὺς γὰρ ἐπλάνησεν τὰ ἐνύπνια, καὶ ἐξέπεσον ἐλπίζοντες ἐπ' αὐτοῖς. | |
| 8 | Without such deceptions the law will be fulfilled, and wisdom is made perfect in truthful lips. | ἄνευ ψεύδους συντελεσθήσεται νόμος, καὶ σοφία στόματι πιστῷ τελείωσις. | |