Sirach 34

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	NOVA VULGATA
1 Empty and false are the hopes of the senseless, and fools are borne aloft by dreams.	1 Vana spes et mendax viro insensato, et somnia extollunt imprudentes.
2 Like a man who catches at shadows or chases the wind, is the one who believes in dreams.	2 Quasi qui apprehendit umbram et persequitur ventum, sic et qui attendit ad visa noctis.
3 What is seen in dreams is to reality what the reflection of a face is to the face itself.	3 Hoc secundum hoc visio somniorum, ante faciem hominis similitudo faciei.
4 Can the unclean produce the clean? can the liar ever speak the truth?	4 Ab immundo quid mundabitur? Et a mendace quid verum dicetur?
5 Divination, omens and dreams all are unreal; what you already expect, the mind depicts.	5 Divinationes et auguria et somnia vanitas est,
6 Unless it be a vision specially sent by the Most High, fix not your heart on it;	6 et, sicut parturientis, cor phantasias patitur. Nisi ab Altissimo fuerit emissa visitatio, ne dederis in illis cor tuum.
7 For dreams have led many astray, and those who believed in them have perished.	7 Multos enim errare fecerunt somnia, et exciderunt sperantes in illis.
8 The law is fulfilled without fail, and perfect wisdom is found in the mouth of the faithful man.	8 Sine mendacio consummabitur verbum legis, et sapientia in ore fideli consummatio.
9 A man with training gains wide knowledge; a man of experience speaks sense.	9 Vir, qui peregrinatus est, multa didicit, et, qui multa expertus est, enarrabit scienter.
10 One never put to the proof knows little, whereas with travel a man adds to his resourcefulness.	10 Qui non est expertus, pauca recognoscit, qui autem peregrinatus est, multiplicat astutiam.
11 I have seen much in my travels, learned more than ever I could say.	11
12 Often I was in danger of death, but by these attainments I was saved.	12 Multa vidi errando et plurima verba intellexi;
13 Lively is the courage of those who fear the LORD, for they put their hope in their savior;	13 aliquoties usque ad mortem periclitatus sum et horum causa liberatus sum.
14 He who fears the LORD is never alarmed, never afraid; for the LORD is his hope.	14 Spiritus timentium Dominum vivet, et in respectu illius benedicetur.
15 Happy the soul that fears the LORD! In whom does he trust, and who is his support?	15 Spes enim illorum in salvantem illos, et oculi Dei in diligentes se.
16 The eyes of the LORD are upon those who love him; he is their mighty shield and strong support, A shelter from the heat, a shade from the noonday sun, a guard against stumbling, a help against falling.	16 Qui timet Dominum, nihil trepidabit et non pavebit, quoniam ipse est spes eius.
17 He buoys up the spirits, brings a sparkle to the eyes, gives health and life and blessing.	17 Timentis Dominum beata est anima eius.
18 Tainted his gifts who offers in sacrifice ill-gotten goods! Mock presents from the lawless win not God's favor.	18 Ad quem respicit? Et quis est fortitudo eius?
19 The Most High approves not the gifts of the godless, nor for their many sacrifices does he forgive their sins.	19 Oculi Domini super timentes eum: protector potentiae, firmamentum virtutis, tegimen ardoris et umbraculum meridiani,
20 Like the man who slays a son in his father's presence is he who offers sacrifice from the possessions of the poor.	20 custodia offensionis et adiutorium casus, exaltans animam et illuminans oculos, dans sanitatem vitae et benedictionem.
21 The bread of charity is life itself for the needy; he who withholds it is a man of blood.	21 Dominus solus sustinentibus se in via veritatis et iustitiae.
22 He slays his neighbor who deprives him of his living: he sheds blood who denies the laborer his wages.	22 Immolantis ex iniquo, oblatio maculata, et non sunt beneplacitae hostiae iniustorum.
23 If one man builds up and another tears down, what do they gain but trouble?	23 Dona iniquorum non probat Altissimus nec respicit in oblationes iniquorum nec in multitudine sacrificiorum eorum propitiabitur peccatis.
24 If one man prays and another curses, whose voice will the LORD hear?	24 Qui offert sacrificium ex substantia pauperum, quasi qui victimat filium in conspectu patris sui.
25 If a man again touches a corpse after he has bathed, what did he gain by the purification?	25 Panis egentium vita pauperum est; qui defraudat illum, homo sanguinis est.
26 So with a man who fasts for his sins, but then goes and commits them again: Who will hear his prayer, and what has he gained by his mortification?	26 Qui aufert in sudore panem, quasi qui occidit proximum suum;
	27 et effundit sanguinem, qui fraudem facit mercennario.
	28 Unus aedificans et unus destruens; quid prodest illis nisi labor?
	29 Unus orans et unus maledicens; cuius vocem exaudiet Deus?
	30 Qui baptizatur a mortuo et iterum tangit eum: quid proficit lavatio illius?
	31 Sic homo, qui ieiunat pro peccatis suis, et iterum vadens et eadem faciens. Orationem illius quis exaudiet? Aut quid proficit humiliando se?