Sirach and dreams: why are they foolish?

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So, what is up with:

34: The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.
2 The man that giveth heed to lying visions, is like to him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind.
3 The vision of dreams is the resemblance of one thing to another: as when a man’s likeness is before the face of a man.
4 What can be made clean by the unclean? and what truth can come from that which is false?
5 Deceitful divinations and lying omens and the dreams of evildoers, are vanity:

When the dreams of Joseph and Daniel (plus the ones they interpreted) were divinely inspired?
 
Ver. 1. The. Greek, “on dreams. The,” &c. (Haydock) — No dependence can be had on the pretended interpretation of dreams, which do not come from God; (Calmet) as some do, Matthew i., and Daniel ii. (Worthington)

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http://haydock1859.tripod.com/id1202.html

Peace!!!
 
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