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    "content": "Ecclesiasticus, Chapter 10 — 34 verses (Douay-Rheims)",
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  "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10 (Douay-Rheims)",
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    {
      "verse": 1,
      "text": "A wise judge shall judge his people, and the government of a prudent man shall be steady.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 2,
      "text": "As the judge of the people is himself, so also are his ministers: and what manner of man the ruler of a city is, such also are they that dwell therein.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "An unwise king shall be the ruin of his people: and cities shall be inhabited through the prudence of the rulers.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 4,
      "text": "The power of the earth is in the hand of God, and in his time he will raise up a profitable ruler over it.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 5,
      "text": "The prosperity of man is in the hand of God, and upon the person of the scribe he shall lay his honour.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Remember not any injury done thee by thy neighbour, and do thou nothing by deeds of injury.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 7,
      "text": "Pride is hateful before God and men: and all iniquity of nations is execrable.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "A kingdom is translated from one people to another, because of injustices, and wrongs, and injuries, and divers deceits.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "But nothing is more wicked than the covetous man. Why is earth, and ashes proud?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "There is not a more wicked thing than to love money: for such a one setteth even his own soul to sale: because while he liveth he hath cast away his bowels.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "All power is of short life. A long sickness is troublesome to the physician.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "The physician cutteth off a short sickness: so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shall die.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, and beasts, and worms.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: he that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed them.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "God hath overturned the thrones of proud princes, and hath set up the meek in their stead.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "God hath made the roots of proud nations to wither, and hath planted the humble of these nations.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "The Lord hath overthrown the lands of the Gentiles, and hath destroyed them even to the foundation.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "He hath made some of them to wither away, and hath destroyed them, and hath made the memory of them to cease from the earth.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "God hath abolished the memory of the proud, and hath preserved the memory of them that are humble in mind.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "Pride was not made for men: nor wrath for the race of women.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "That seed of men shall be honoured, which feareth God: but that seed shall be dishonoured, which transgresseth the commandments of the Lord.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "In the midst of brethren their chief is honourable: so shall they that fear the Lord, be in his eyes.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "The fear of God is the glory of the rich, and of the honourable, and of the poor.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "Despise not a just man that is poor, and do not magnify a sinful man that is rich.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "The great man, and the judge, and the mighty is in honour: and there is none greater than he that feareth God.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "They that are free shall serve a servant that is wise: and a man that is prudent and well instructed will not murmur when he is reproved; and he that is ignorant, shall not be honoured.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 29,
      "text": "Extol not thyself in doing thy work, and linger not in the time of distress;",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:29 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 30,
      "text": "Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth in all things, than he that boasteth himself and wanteth bread.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:30 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 31,
      "text": "My son, keep thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according to its desert.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:31 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 32,
      "text": "Who will justify him that sinneth against his own soul? and who will honour him that dishonoureth his own soul?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:32 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 33,
      "text": "The poor man is glorified by his discipline and fear, and there is a man that is honoured for his wealth.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:33 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 34,
      "text": "But he that is glorified in poverty, how much more in wealth? and he that is glorified in wealth, let him fear poverty.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 10:34 (Douay-Rheims)"
    }
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