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    "content": "Ecclesiasticus, Chapter 34 — 31 verses (Douay-Rheims)",
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  "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34 (Douay-Rheims)",
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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "The man that giveth heed to lying visions, is like to him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "The vision of dreams is the resemblance of one thing to another: as when a man's likeness is before the face of a man.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "What can be made clean by the unclean? and what truth can come from that which is false?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Deceitful divinations and lying omens and the dreams of evildoers, are vanity:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "And the heart fancieth as that of a woman in travail: except it be a vision sent forth from the most High, set not thy heart upon them.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 7,
      "text": "For dreams have deceived many, and they have failed that put their trust in them.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "The word of the law shall be fulfilled without a lie, and wisdom shall be made plain in the mouth of the faithful.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "What doth he know, that hath not been tried? A man that hath much experience, shall think of many things: and he that hath learned many things, shall shew forth understanding.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "He that hath no experience, knoweth little: and he that hath been experienced in many things, multiplieth prudence.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "He that hath not been tried, what manner of things doth he know? he that hath been surprised, shall abound with subtlety.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "I have seen many things by travelling, and many customs of things.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "Sometimes I have been in danger of death for these things, and I have been delivered by the grace of God.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "The spirit of those that fear God, is sought after, and by his regard shall be blessed.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "For their hope is on him that saveth them, and the eyes of God are upon them that love him.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "He that feareth the Lord shall tremble at nothing, and shall not be afraid: for he is his hope.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "The soul of him that feareth the Lord is blessed.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "To whom doth he look, and who is his strength?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "The eyes of the Lord are upon them that fear him, he is their powerful protector, and strong stay, a defence from the heat, and a cover from the sun at noon,",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "A preservation from stumbling, and a help from falling: he raiseth up the soul, and enlighteneth the eyes, and giveth health, and life, and blessing.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "The offering of him that sacrificeth of a thing wrongfully gotten, is stained, and the mockeries of the unjust are not acceptable.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "The Lord is only for them that wait upon him in the way of truth and justice.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked: neither hath he respect to the oblations of the unjust, nor will he be pacified for sins by the multitude of their sacrifices.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor, is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "The bread of the needy, is the life of the poor: he that defraudeth them thereof, is a man of blood.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "He that taketh away the bread gotten by sweat, is like him that killeth his neighbour.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "He that sheddeth blood, and he that defraudeth the laborer of his hire, are brothers.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "When one buildeth up, and another pulleth down: what profit have they but the labour?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 29,
      "text": "When one prayeth, and another curseth: whose voice will God hear?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:29 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 30,
      "text": "He that washeth himself after touching the dead, if he toucheth him again, what doth his washing avail?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:30 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 31,
      "text": "So a man that fasteth for his sins, and doth the same again, what doth his humbling himself profit him? who will hear his prayer?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 34:31 (Douay-Rheims)"
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