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Ben Sira 34
Ben Sira 34:1-6
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Ben Sira 34:1-6
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1
A man of no understanding has vain and false hopes, and dreams give wings to fools.
2
As one who catches at a shadow and pursues the wind, so is he who gives heed to dreams.
3
The vision of dreams is this against that, the likeness of a face confronting a face.
4
From an unclean thing what will be made clean? And from something false what will be true?
5
Divinations and omens and dreams are folly, and like a woman in travail the mind has fancies.
6
Unless they are sent from the Most High as a visitation, do not give your mind to them.
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Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.