Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 34: 1 - 8, 18 - 22

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34:1 A man of no understanding has vain and false hopes, and dreams give wings to fools.
34:2 As one who catches at a shadow and pursues the wind, so is he who gives heed to dreams.
34:3 The vision of dreams is this against that, the likeness of a face confronting a face.
34:4 From an unclean thing what will be made clean? And from something false what will be true?
34:5 Divinations and omens and dreams are folly, and like a woman in travail the mind has fancies.
34:6 Unless they are sent from the Most High as a visitation, do not give your mind to them.
34:7 For dreams have deceived many, and those who put their hope in them have failed.
34:8 Without such deceptions the law will be fulfilled, and wisdom is made perfect in truthful lips.

34:18 If one sacrifices from what has been wrongfully obtained, the offering is blemished; the gifts of
the lawless are not acceptable.
34:19 The Most High is not pleased with the offerings of the ungodly; and he is not propitiated for sins by a multitude of sacrifices.
34:20 Like one who kills a son before his father's eyes is the man who offers a sacrifice from the property of the poor.
34:21 The bread of the needy is the life of the poor; whoever deprives them of it is a man of blood.
34:22 To take away a neighbor's living is to murder him; to deprive an employee of his wages is to shed blood.