Chapter 31

¹ The hopes of a man void of understanding are vain and false:

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² Whoso regardeth dreams

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³ The vision of dreams is the resemblance of one thing to another,

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⁴ Of an unclean thing what can be cleansed?

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⁵ Divinations, and soothsayings, and dreams, are vain:

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⁶ If they be not sent from the most High in thy visitation,

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⁷ For dreams have deceived many,

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⁸ The law shall be found perfect without lies:

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⁹ A man that hath traveled knoweth many things:

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¹⁰ He that hath no experience knoweth little:

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¹¹ When I traveled, I saw many things;

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¹² I was oftentimes in danger of death:

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¹³ The spirit of those that fear the Lord shall live;

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¹⁴ Whoso feareth the Lord shall not fear

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¹⁵ Blessed is the soul of him that feareth the Lord:

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¹⁶ For the eyes of the Lord are upon them that love him,

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¹⁷ He raiseth up the soul, and lighteneth the eyes:

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¹⁸ He that sacrificeth of a thing wrongfully gotten, his offering is ridiculous;

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¹⁹ The most High is not pleased with the offerings of the wicked;

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²⁰ Whoso bringeth an offering of the goods of the poor

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²¹ The bread of the needy is their life:

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²² He that taketh away his neighbor’s living slayeth him;

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²³ When one buildeth, and another pulleth down,

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²⁴ When one prayeth, and another curseth,

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²⁵ He that washeth himself after the touching of a dead body, if he touch it again,

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²⁶ So is it with a man that fasteth for his sins,

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