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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,",
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence.",
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:",
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 2:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God:",
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.",
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "He wilt keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity,",
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.",
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.",
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:",
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,",
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:",
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      "verse": 13,
      "text": "Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 2:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 14,
      "text": "Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in the most wicked things:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 2:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 15,
      "text": "Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 2:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 16,
      "text": "That thou mayst be delivered from the strange woman, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words;",
      "citation": "Proverbs 2:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 17,
      "text": "And forsaketh the guide of her youth,",
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      "verse": 18,
      "text": "And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.",
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      "verse": 19,
      "text": "None that go in unto her, shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life.",
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      "verse": 20,
      "text": "That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.",
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      "verse": 21,
      "text": "For they that are upright, shall dwell in the earth; and the simple shall continue in it.",
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      "verse": 22,
      "text": "But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly, shall be taken away from it.",
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