Vain and false hopes are for a man void of understanding;

2 As one that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind,

3 The vision of dreams is as this thing against that,

4 Of an unclean thing what shall be cleansed?

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

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

7 For dreams have led many astray:

8 Without lying shall the law be accomplished;

9 A well-instructed man knoweth many things;

10 He that hath no experience knoweth few things:

11 In my wandering I have seen many things;

12 Ofttimes was I in danger even unto death;

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

14 Whoso feareth the Lord shall not be afraid, and shall not play the coward;

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

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

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

18 He that sacrificeth of a thing wrongfully gotten, his offering is made in mockery;

19 The Most High hath no pleasure in the offerings of the ungodly;

20 As one that killeth the son before his father’s eyes

21 The bread of the needy is the life of the poor:

22 As one that slayeth his neighbor is he that taketh away his living;

23 One building, and another pulling down,

24 One praying, and another cursing,

25 He that washeth himself after touching a dead body, and toucheth it again,

26 Even so a man fasting for his sins,