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    "content": "Ecclesiasticus, Chapter 41 — 28 verses (Douay-Rheims)",
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  "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41 (Douay-Rheims)",
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    {
      "verse": 1,
      "text": "O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions!",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 2,
      "text": "To a man that is at rest, and whose ways are prosperous in all things, and that is yet able to take meat!",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "O death thy sentence is welcome to the man that is in need, and to him whose strength faileth:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 4,
      "text": "Who is in a decrepit age, and that is in care about all things, and to the distrustful that loseth patience!",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Fear not the sentence of death. Remember what things have been before thee, and what shall come after thee: this sentence is from the Lord upon all flesh.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "And what shall come upon thee by the good pleasure of the most High? whether ten, or a hundred, or a thousand years.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 7,
      "text": "For among the dead there is no accusing of life.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "The children of sinners become children of abominations, and they that converse near the houses of the ungodly.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "The inheritance of the children of sinners shall perish, and with their posterity shall be a perpetual reproach.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "The children will complain of an ungodly father, because for his sake they are in reproach.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "Woe to you, ungodly men, who have forsaken the law of the most high Lord.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "And if you be born, you shall be born in malediction: and if you die, in malediction shall be your portion.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "All things that are of the earth, shall return into the earth: so the ungodly shall from malediction to destruction.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "The mourning of men is about their body, but the name of the ungodly shall be blotted out.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "Take care of a good name: for this shall continue with thee, more than a thousand treasures precious and great.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "A good life hath its number of days: but a good name shall continue for ever.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "My children, keep discipline in peace: for wisdom that is hid, and a treasure that is not seen, what profit is there in them both?",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "Better is the man that hideth his folly, than the man that hideth his wisdom.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "Wherefore have a shame of these things I am now going to speak of.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "For it is not good to keep all shamefacedness: and all things do not please all men in opinion.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "Be ashamed of fornication before father and mother: and of a lie before a governor and a man in power:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "Of an offence before a prince, and a judge: of iniquity before a congregation and a people:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "Of injustice before a companion and friend: and in regard to the place where thou dwellest,",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "Of theft, and of the truth of God, and the covenant: of leaning with thy elbow over meat, and of deceit in giving and taking:",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "Of silence before them that salute thee: of looking upon a harlot: and of turning away thy face from thy kinsman.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "Turn not away thy face from thy neighbour, and of taking away a portion and not restoring.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "Gaze not upon another man's wife, and be not inquisitive after his handmaid, and approach not her bed.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "Be ashamed of upbraiding speeches before friends: and after thou hast given, upbraid not.",
      "citation": "Ecclesiasticus 41:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
    }
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