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  "citation": "Job 31 (Douay-Rheims)",
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    {
      "verse": 1,
      "text": "I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.",
      "citation": "Job 31:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 2,
      "text": "For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?",
      "citation": "Job 31:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 3,
      "text": "Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?",
      "citation": "Job 31:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 4,
      "text": "Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?",
      "citation": "Job 31:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 5,
      "text": "If I have walked in vanity, and my foot hath made haste to deceit:",
      "citation": "Job 31:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.",
      "citation": "Job 31:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 7,
      "text": "If my step hath turned out of the way, and if my heart hath followed my eyes, and if a spot hath cleaved to my hands:",
      "citation": "Job 31:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "Then let me sow and let another reap: and let my offspring be rooted out.",
      "citation": "Job 31:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door:",
      "citation": "Job 31:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.",
      "citation": "Job 31:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.",
      "citation": "Job 31:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.",
      "citation": "Job 31:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:",
      "citation": "Job 31:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "For what shall I do when God shall rise to judge? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?",
      "citation": "Job 31:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?",
      "citation": "Job 31:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "If I have denied to the poor what they desired, and have made the eyes of the widow wait:",
      "citation": "Job 31:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof:",
      "citation": "Job 31:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "(For from my infancy mercy grew up with me: and it came out with me from my mother's womb:)",
      "citation": "Job 31:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "If I have despised him that was perishing for want of clothing, and the poor man that had no covering:",
      "citation": "Job 31:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "If his sides have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep:",
      "citation": "Job 31:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:",
      "citation": "Job 31:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.",
      "citation": "Job 31:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was unable to bear.",
      "citation": "Job 31:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence:",
      "citation": "Job 31:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.",
      "citation": "Job 31:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "If I beheld the sun when it shined and the moon going in brightness:",
      "citation": "Job 31:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "And my heart in secret hath rejoiced, and I have kissed my hand with my mouth:",
      "citation": "Job 31:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God.",
      "citation": "Job 31:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 29,
      "text": "If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.",
      "citation": "Job 31:29 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 30,
      "text": "For I have not been given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul.",
      "citation": "Job 31:30 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 31,
      "text": "If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?",
      "citation": "Job 31:31 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 32,
      "text": "The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.",
      "citation": "Job 31:32 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 33,
      "text": "If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.",
      "citation": "Job 31:33 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 34,
      "text": "If I have been afraid at a very great multitude, and the contempt of kinsmen hath terrified me: and have not rather held my peace, and not gone out of the door.",
      "citation": "Job 31:34 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 35,
      "text": "Who would grant me a hearing, that the Almighty may hear my desire: and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,",
      "citation": "Job 31:35 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 36,
      "text": "That I may carry it on my shoulder, and put it about me as a crown?",
      "citation": "Job 31:36 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 37,
      "text": "At every step of mine I would pronounce it, and offer it as to a prince.",
      "citation": "Job 31:37 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 38,
      "text": "If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn:",
      "citation": "Job 31:38 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 39,
      "text": "If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have afflicted the son of the tillers thereof:",
      "citation": "Job 31:39 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 40,
      "text": "Let thistles grow up to me instead of wheat, and thorns instead of barley.",
      "citation": "Job 31:40 (Douay-Rheims)"
    }
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