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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "The wisdom of the humble shall exalt his head, and shall make him sit in the midst of great men.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Praise not a man for his beauty, neither despise a man for his look.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "The bee is small among flying things but her fruit hath the chiefest sweetness.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "Glory not in apparel at any time, and be not exalted in the day of thy honour: for the works of the Highest only are wonderful, and his works are glorious, and secret, and hidden.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Many tyrants have sat on the throne, and he whom no man would think on, hath worn the crown.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Many mighty men have been greatly brought down, and the glorious have been delivered into the hand of others.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 7,
      "text": "Before thou inquire, blame no man: and when thou hast inquired, reprove justly.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "Before thou hear, answer not a word: and interrupt not others in the midst of their discourse.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "Strive not in a matter which doth not concern thee, and sit not in judgment with sinners.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "My son, meddle not with many matters: and if thou be rich, thou shalt not be free from sin: for if thou pursue after thou shalt not overtake; and if thou run before thou shalt not escape.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "There is an ungodly man that laboureth, and maketh haste, and is in sorrow, and is so much the more in want.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "Again, there is an inactive man that wanteth help, is very weak in ability, and full of poverty:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "Yet the eye of God hath looked upon him for good, and hath lifted him up from his low estate, and hath exalted his head: and many have wondered at him, and have glorified God.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 14,
      "text": "Good things and evil, life and death, poverty and riches, are from God.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "Wisdom and discipline, and the knowledge of the law are with God. Love and the ways of good things are with him.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "Error and darkness are created with sinners: and they that glory in evil things, grow old in evil.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "The gift of God abideth with the just, and his advancement shall have success for ever.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "There is one that is enriched by living sparingly, and this is the portion of his reward.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "In that he saith: I have found me rest, and now I will eat of my goods alone:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "And he knoweth not what time shall pass, and that death approacheth, and that he must leave all to others, and shall die.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "Be steadfast in thy covenant, and be conversant therein, and grow old in the work of thy commandments.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "Abide not in the works of sinners. But trust in God, and stay in thy place,",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "For it is easy in the eyes of God on a sudden to make the poor man rich.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "The blessing of God maketh haste to reward the just, and in a swift hour his blessing beareth fruit.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "Say not: What need I, and what good shall I have by this?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "Say not: I am sufficient for myself: and what shall I be made worse by this?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "In the day of good things be not unmindful of evils: and in the day of evils be not unmindful of good things:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "For it is easy before God in the day of death to reward every one according to his ways.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 29,
      "text": "The affliction of an hour maketh one forget great delights, and in the end of a man is the disclosing of his works.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:29 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 30,
      "text": "Praise not any man before death, for a man is known by his children.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:30 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 31,
      "text": "Bring not every man into thy house: for many are the snares of the deceitful.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:31 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 32,
      "text": "For as corrupted bowels send forth stinking breath, and as the partridge is brought into the cage, and as the roe into the snare: so also is the heart of the proud, and as a spy that looketh on the fall of his neighbour.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:32 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 33,
      "text": "For he lieth in wait and turneth good into evil, and on the elect he will lay a blot.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:33 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 34,
      "text": "Of one spark cometh a great fire, and of one deceitful man much blood: and a sinful man lieth in wait for blood.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:34 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 35,
      "text": "Take heed to thyself of a mischievous man, for he worketh evils: lest he bring upon thee reproach for ever.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:35 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 36,
      "text": "Receive a stranger in, and he shall overthrow thee with a whirlwind, and shall turn thee out of thy own.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 11:36 (Douay-Rheims)"
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