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    "content": "Proverbs, Chapter 22 — 29 verses (Douay-Rheims)",
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  "citation": "Proverbs 22 (Douay-Rheims)",
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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "A good name is better than great riches: and good favour is above silver and gold.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 2,
      "text": "The rich and poor have met one another: the Lord is the maker of them both.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "The prudent man saw the evil, and hid himself: the simple passed on, and suffered loss.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "The fruit of humility is the fear of the Lord, riches and glory and life.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Arms and swords are in the way of the perverse: but he that keepeth his own soul, departeth far from them.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "It is a proverb: A young man according to his way, even when he is old, he will not depart from it.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "The rich ruleth over the poor: and the borrower is servant to him that lendeth.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "He that soweth iniquity, shall reap evils, and with the rod of his anger he shall be consumed.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "He that is inclined to mercy, shall be blessed: for of his bread he hath given to the poor. He that maketh presents, shall purchase victory and honour: but he carrieth away the souls of the receivers.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out with him, and quarrels and reproaches shall cease.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "He that loveth cleanness of heart, for the grace of his lips shall have the king for his friend.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge: and the words of the unjust are overthrown.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "The slothful man saith: There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the midst of the streets.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: he whom the Lord is angry with, shall fall into it.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, and the rod of correction shall drive it away.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "He that oppresseth the poor, to increase his own riches, shall himself give to one that is richer, and shall be in need.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the wise: and apply thy heart to my doctrine:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "That thy trust may be in the Lord, wherefore I have also shewn it to thee this day.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "Behold I have described it to thee three manner of ways, in thoughts and knowledge:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "That I might shew thee the certainty, and the words of truth, to answer out of these to them that sent thee.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "Do no violence to the poor, because he is poor: and do not oppress the needy in the gate:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "Because the Lord will judge his cause: and will afflict them that have afflicted his soul.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "Be not a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious man:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "Lest perhaps thou learn his ways, and take scandal to thy soul.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "Be not with them that fasten down their hands, and that offer themselves sureties for debts:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "For if thou have not wherewith to restore, what cause is there that he should take the covering from thy bed?",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "Pass not beyond the ancient bounds which thy fathers have set.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 29,
      "text": "Hast thou seen a man swift in his work? he shall stand before kings, and shall not be before those that are obscure.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 22:29 (Douay-Rheims)"
    }
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