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Vulgate (Latin)   
vana spes et mendacium insensato viro et somnia extollunt inprudentes

King James Variants

Other translations
New Catholic Bible   
Vain and false are the hopes of the senseless, and dreams offer wings to a fool.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
The senseless have vain and false hopes, and dreams give wings to fools.
Good News Translation®   
Foolish people are deceived by vain hopes, and dreams get them all excited.
Wycliffe Bible   
Vain hope and a leasing (or a lie), to an unwise man; and dreams [or swevens] enhance unprudent men.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
A man of no understanding has vain and false hopes, and dreams give wings to fools.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
The senseless have vain and false hopes, and dreams give wings to fools.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
The senseless have vain and false hopes, and dreams give wings to fools.
Common English Bible © 2011   
Senseless people have empty and false hopes, and dreams excite fools.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
Empty and false are the hopes of the senseless, and dreams give wings to fools.
Revised Standard Version   
A man of no understanding has vain and false hopes, and dreams give wings to fools.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
The senseless have vain and false hopes, and dreams give wings to fools.