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    "content": "Ecclesiasticus, Chapter 19 — 28 verses (Douay-Rheims)",
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  "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19 (Douay-Rheims)",
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    {
      "verse": 1,
      "text": "A workman that is a drunkard shall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things, shall fall by little and little.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Wine and women make wise men fall off, and shall rebuke the prudent:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 3,
      "text": "And he that joineth himself to harlots, will be wicked. Rottenness and worms shall inherit him, and he shall be lifted up for a greater example, and his soul shall be taken away out of the number.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "He that is hasty to give credit, is light of heart, and shall be lessened: and he that sinneth against his own soul, shall be despised.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 5,
      "text": "He that rejoiceth in iniquity, shall be censured, and he that hateth chastisement, shall have less life: and he that hateth babbling, extinguisheth evil.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "He that sinneth against his own soul, shall repent: and he that is delighted with wickedness, shall be condemned.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 7,
      "text": "Rehearse not again a wicked and harsh word, and thou shalt not fare the worse.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "Tell not thy mind to friend or foe: and if there be a sin with thee, disclose it not.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "For he will hearken to thee, and will watch thee, and as it were defending thy sin he will hate thee, and so will he be with thee always.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Hast thou heard a word against thy neighbour? let it die within thee, trusting that it will not burst thee.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "At the hearing of a word the fool is in travail, as a woman groaning in the bringing forth a child.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "As an arrow that sticketh in a man's thigh: so is a word in the heart of a fool.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "Reprove a friend, lest he may not have understood, and say: I did it not: or if he did it, that he may do it no more.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "Reprove thy neighbour, for it may be he hath not said it: and if he hath said it, that he may not say it again.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "Admonish thy friend: for there is often a fault committed.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "And believe not every word. There is one, that slippeth with the tongue, but not from his heart.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "For who is there that hath not offended with his tongue? Admonish thy neighbour before thou threaten him.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "And give place to the fear of the most High: for the fear of God is all wisdom, and therein is to fear God, and the disposition of the law is in all wisdom.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "But the learning of wickedness is not wisdom: and the device of sinners is not prudence.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "There is a subtle wickedness, and the same is detestable: and there is a man that is foolish, wanting in wisdom.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "Better is a man that hath less wisdom, and wanteth understanding, with the fear of God, than he that aboundeth in understanding, and transgresseth the law of the most High.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "There is an exquisite subtilty, and the same is unjust.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "And there is one that uttereth an exact word telling the truth. There is one that humbleth himself wickedly, and his interior is full of deceit:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "And there is one that submitteth himself exceedingly with a great lowliness: and there is one that casteth down his countenance, and maketh as if he did not see that which is unknown:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "And if he be hindered from sinning for want of power, if he shall find opportunity to do evil, he will do it.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "A man is known by his look, and a wise man, when thou meetest him, is known by his countenance.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "The attire of the body, and the laughter of the teeth, and the gait of the man, shew what he is.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "There is a lying rebuke in the anger of an injurious man: and there is a judgment that is not allowed to be good: and there is one that holdeth his peace, he is wise.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 19:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
    }
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