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Sirach 34:2 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" As one who grasps at a shadow and follows after the wind, so is he who sets his mind on dreams. "

Sirach 34:2

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1 Vain and false hopes are for a man void of understanding. Dreams give wings to fools.

2 As one who grasps at a shadow and follows after the wind, so is he who sets his mind on dreams.

3 The vision of dreams is a reflection, the likeness of a face near a face.

4 From an unclean thing what can be cleansed? From that which is false what can be true?

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Sirach 34:1

"Vain and false hopes are for a man void of understanding. Dreams give wings to fools."

Sirach 34:3

"The vision of dreams is a reflection, the likeness of a face near a face."

Sirach 34:4

"From an unclean thing what can be cleansed? From that which is false what can be true?"

Sirach 34:5

"Divinations, and soothsayings, and dreams, are vain. The heart has fantasies like a woman in labor."

Sirach 34:6

"If they are not sent in a visitation from the Most High, don’t give your heart to them."

Sirach 34:7

"For dreams have led many astray. They have failed by putting their hope in them."

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