Sirach 34:1-8

On dreams

1 Senseless people have empty and false hopes, and dreams excite fools.
2 Those who pay attention to dreams are just like people who grasp at a shadow or pursue the wind.
3 What one sees in a dream is a reflection, a face looking at its own likeness.
4 What will be made clean from something unclean? And what will be true of something false?
5 Divinations, omens, and dreams are empty. The mind has fantasies, just like a woman in labor does.
6 Unless the Most High sends a dream by means of a visitation, don't pay any attention to it.
7 Dreams have misled many, and those who have placed hope in them have fallen.
8 The Law will be fulfilled without lies; wisdom in a faithful person's mouth is fulfillment.
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