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Sirach 34:21 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The bread of the needy is the life of the poor. He who deprives him of it is a man of blood. "

Sirach 34:21

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19 The Most High has no pleasure in the offerings of the ungodly, Neither is he pacified for sins by the multitude of sacrifices.

20 Like one who kills a son before his father’s eyes is he who brings a sacrifice from the goods of the poor.

21 The bread of the needy is the life of the poor. He who deprives him of it is a man of blood.

22 Like one who murders his neighbor is he who takes away his living. Like a shedder of blood is he who deprives a hireling of his hire.

23 When one builds, and another pulls down, what profit do they have but toil?

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Sirach 34:1

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

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

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

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"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."

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