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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "The parables of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel,",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 2,
      "text": "To know wisdom, and instruction:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth shall possess governments.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "He shall understand a parable and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "That grace may be added to thy head, and a chain of gold to thy neck.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "My son, if sinners shall entice thee, consent not to them.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 13,
      "text": "We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 14,
      "text": "Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 15,
      "text": "My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 16,
      "text": "For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 17,
      "text": "But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 18,
      "text": "And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 19,
      "text": "So the ways of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 20,
      "text": "Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 29,
      "text": "Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:29 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 30,
      "text": "Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:30 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 31,
      "text": "Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:31 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 32,
      "text": "The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:32 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 33,
      "text": "But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 1:33 (Douay-Rheims)"
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