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    "content": "Ecclesiasticus, Chapter 27 — 33 verses (Douay-Rheims)",
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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Through poverty many have sinned: and he that seeketh to be enriched, turneth away his eye.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "As a stake sticketh fast in the midst of the joining of stones, so also in the midst of selling and buying, sin shall stick fast.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "Sin shall be destroyed with the sinner.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 4,
      "text": "Unless thou hold thyself diligently in the fear of the Lord, thy house shall quickly be overthrown.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "As when one sifteth with a sieve, the dust will remain: so will the perplexity of a man in his thoughts.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "The furnace trieth the potter's vessels, and the trial of affliction just men.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 7,
      "text": "As the dressing of a tree sheweth the fruit thereof, so a word out of the thought of the heart of man.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "Praise not a man before he speaketh, for this is the trial of men.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "If thou followest justice, thou shalt obtain her: and shalt put her on as a long robe of honour, and thou shalt dwell with her: and she shall protect thee for ever, and in the day of acknowledgment thou shalt find a strong foundation.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Birds resort unto their like: so truth will return to them that practise her.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "The lion always lieth in wait for prey: so do sins for them that work iniquities.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "A holy man continueth in wisdom as the sun: but a fool is changed as the moon.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "In the midst of the unwise keep in the word till its time: but be continually among men that think.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "The discourse of sinners is hateful, and their laughter is at the pleasures of sin.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "The speech that sweareth much shall make the hair of the head stand upright: and its irreverence shall make one stop his ears.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "In the quarrels of the road is the shedding of blood: and their cursing is a grievous hearing.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 17,
      "text": "He that discloseth the secret of a friend loseth his credit, and shall never find a friend to his mind.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "Love thy neighbour, and be joined to him with fidelity.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 19,
      "text": "But if thou discover his secrets, follow no more after him.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "For as a man that destroyeth his friend, so is he that destroyeth the friendship of his neighbour.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "And as one that letteth a bird go out of his hand, so hast thou let thy neighbour go, and thou shalt not get him again.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "Follow after him no more, for he is gone afar off, he is fled, as a roe escaped out of the snare because his soul is wounded.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "Thou canst no more bind him up. And of a curse there is reconciliation:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "But to disclose the secrets of a friend, leaveth no hope to an unhappy soul.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "He that winketh with the eye forgeth wicked things, and no man will cast him off:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "In the sight of thy eyes he will sweeten his mouth, and will admire thy words: but at the last he will writhe his mouth, and on thy words he will lay a stumblingblock.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "I have hated many things but not like him, and the Lord will hate him.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "If one cast a stone on high, it will fall upon his own head: and the deceitful stroke will wound the deceitful.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 29,
      "text": "He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that setteth a stone for his neighbour, shall stumble upon it: and he that layeth a snare for another, shall perish in it.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:29 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 30,
      "text": "A mischievous counsel shall be rolled back upon the author, and he shall not know from whence it cometh to him.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:30 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 31,
      "text": "Mockery and reproach are of the proud, and vengeance as a lion shall lie in wait for him.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:31 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 32,
      "text": "They shall perish in a snare that are delighted with the fall of the just: and sorrow shall consume them before they die.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:32 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 33,
      "text": "Anger and fury are both of them abominable, and the sinful man shall be subject to them.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 27:33 (Douay-Rheims)"
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