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  "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10 (Douay-Rheims)",
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    {
      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Dying flies spoil the sweetness of the ointment. Wisdom and glory is more precious than a small and shortlived folly.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 2,
      "text": "The heart of a wise man is in his right hand, and the heart of a fool is in his left hand.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "Yea, and the fool when he walketh in the way, whereas he himself is a fool, esteemeth all men fools.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "If the spirit of him that hath power, ascend upon thee, leave not thy place: because care will make the greatest sins to cease.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were by an error proceeding from the face of the prince:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "A fool set in high dignity, and the rich sitting beneath.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "I have seen servants upon horses: and princes walking on the ground as servants.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "He that removeth stones, shall be hurt by them: and he that cutteth trees, shall be wounded by them.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "If the iron be blunt, and be not as before, but be made blunt, with much labour it shall be sharpened: and after industry shall follow wisdom.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "The words of the mouth of a wise man are grace: but the lips of a fool shall throw him down headlong.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "The beginning of his words is folly, and the end of his talk is a mischievous error.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot tell what hath been before him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "The labour of fools shall afflict them that know not how to go to the city.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and when the princes eat in the morning.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "Blessed is the land, whose king is noble, and whose princes eat in due season for refreshment, and not for riotousness.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 18,
      "text": "By slothfulness a building shall be brought down, and through the weakness of hands, the house shall drop through.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 19,
      "text": "For laughter they make bread, and wine that the living may feast: and all things obey money.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 20,
      "text": "Detract not the king, no not in thy thought; and speak not evil of the rich man in thy private chamber: because even the birds of the air will carry thy voice, and he that hath wings will tell what thou hast said.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 10:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
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