Sirach 34:1-8

Common English Bible

34 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.