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Read›Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)›Chapter 34
In 4 translations
- KJV
- The hopes of a man void of understanding are vain and false: and dreams lift up fools.
- WEB
- Vain and false hopes are for a man void of understanding. Dreams give wings to fools.
- DRC
- The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.
- LXXE
- Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, and the care thereof driveth away sleep.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Ἀγρυπνία πλούτου ἐκτήκει σάρκας, καὶ ἡ μέριμνα αὐτοῦ ἀφιστᾷ ὕπνον.