{
  "_meta": {
    "project": "Latin Prayer",
    "projectUrl": "https://latinprayer.org",
    "apiDocs": "https://latinprayer.org/llms.txt",
    "content": "Ecclesiasticus, Chapter 32 — 28 verses (Douay-Rheims)",
    "translation": {
      "name": "Douay-Rheims",
      "language": "en",
      "languageName": "English",
      "copyright": "Public Domain"
    },
    "book": {
      "name": "Ecclesiasticus",
      "slug": "ecclesiasticus",
      "testament": "OT",
      "order": 26,
      "totalChapters": 51
    },
    "chapter": 32,
    "verseCount": 28,
    "navigation": {
      "htmlUrl": "https://latinprayer.org/bible/ecclesiasticus/32/",
      "bookIndex": "https://latinprayer.org/bible/ecclesiasticus/index.json",
      "bookHtmlUrl": "https://latinprayer.org/bible/ecclesiasticus/",
      "translationIndex": "https://latinprayer.org/bible/index.json",
      "translationHtmlUrl": "https://latinprayer.org/bible/",
      "previousChapter": "https://latinprayer.org/bible/ecclesiasticus/31.json",
      "previousChapterHtmlUrl": "https://latinprayer.org/bible/ecclesiasticus/31/",
      "nextChapter": "https://latinprayer.org/bible/ecclesiasticus/33.json",
      "nextChapterHtmlUrl": "https://latinprayer.org/bible/ecclesiasticus/33/"
    },
    "crossReferences": {
      "latin": "https://latinprayer.org/latin/ecclesiasticus/32.json",
      "latinHtmlUrl": "https://latinprayer.org/latin/ecclesiasticus/32/",
      "german": "https://latinprayer.org/bibel/ecclesiasticus/32.json",
      "germanHtmlUrl": "https://latinprayer.org/bibel/jesus-sirach/32/"
    }
  },
  "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32 (Douay-Rheims)",
  "verses": [
    {
      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Have they made thee ruler? be not lifted up: be among them as one of them.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Have care of them, and so sit down, and when thou hast acquitted thyself of all thy charge, take thy place:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 3,
      "text": "That thou mayst rejoice for them, and receive a crown as an ornament of grace, and get the honour of the contribution.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 4,
      "text": "Speak, thou that art elder: for it becometh thee,",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 5,
      "text": "To speak the first word with careful knowledge, and hinder not music.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Where there is no hearing, pour not out words, and be not lifted up out of season with thy wisdom.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 7,
      "text": "A concert of music in a banquet of wine is as a carbuncle set in gold.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "As a signet of an emerald in a work of gold: so is the melody of music with pleasant and moderate wine.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "Hear in silence, and for thy reverence good grace shall come to thee.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Young man, scarcely speak in thy own cause.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "If thou be asked twice, let thy answer be short.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "In many things be as if thou wert ignorant, and hear in silence and withal seeking.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "In the company of great men take not upon thee: and when the ancients are present, speak not much.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "Before a storm goeth lightning: and before shamefacedness goeth favour: and for thy reverence good grace shall come to thee.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "And at the time of rising be not slack: but be first to run home to thy house, and there withdraw thyself, and there take thy pastime.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "And do what thou hast a mind, but not in sin or proud speech.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "And for all these things bless the Lord, that made thee, and that replenisheth thee with all his good things.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "He that feareth the Lord, will receive his discipline: and they that will seek him early, shall find a blessing.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "He that seeketh the law, shall be filled with it: and he that dealeth deceitfully, shall meet with a stumblingblock therein.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "They that fear the Lord, shall find just judgment, and shall kindle justice as a light.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "A sinful man will flee reproof, and will find an excuse according to his will.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "A man of counsel will not neglect understanding, a strange and proud man will not dread fear:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "Even after he hath done with fear without counsel, he shall be controlled by the things of his own seeking.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "My son, do thou nothing without counsel, and thou shalt not repent when thou hast done.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "Go not in the way of ruin, and thou shalt not stumble against the stones: trust not thyself to a rugged way, lest thou set a stumblingblock to thy soul.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "And beware of thy own children, and take heed of them of thy household.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "In every work of thine regard thy soul in faith: for this is the keeping of the commandments.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "He that believeth God, taketh heed to the commandments: and he that trusteth in him, shall fare never the worse.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 32:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
    }
  ]
}