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  "citation": "Ecclesiastes 5 (Douay-Rheims)",
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    {
      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Speak not any thing rashly, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 5:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 5:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 3,
      "text": "If thou hast vowed any thing to God, defer not to pay it: for an unfaithful and foolish promise displeaseth him: but whatsoever thou hast vowed, pay it.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 5:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "And it is much better not to vow, than after a vow not to perform the things promised.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 5:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Give not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin: and say not before the angel: There is no providence: lest God be angry at thy words, and destroy all the works of thy hands.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 5:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Where there are many dreams, there are many vanities, and words without number: but do thou fear God.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 5:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 7,
      "text": "If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 5:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject to him.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 5:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 5:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them. And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 5:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat little or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 5:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 5:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 5:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 5:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return. What then doth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 5:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "All the days of his life he eateth in darkness, and in many cares, and in misery, and sorrow.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 5:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "This therefore hath seemed good to me, that a man should eat and drink, and enjoy the fruit of his labour, wherewith he hath laboured under the sun, all the days of his life, which God hath given him: and this is his portion.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 5:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "And every man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to enjoy his portion, and to rejoice of his labour: this is the gift of God.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 5:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God entertaineth his heart with delight.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiastes 5:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    }
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