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  "citation": "Proverbs 5 (Douay-Rheims)",
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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence,",
      "citation": "Proverbs 5:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.",
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil.",
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword.",
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 5:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 5:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.",
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.",
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.",
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in another man's house,",
      "citation": "Proverbs 5:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "And thou mourn at the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say;",
      "citation": "Proverbs 5:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,",
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      "verse": 13,
      "text": "And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?",
      "citation": "Proverbs 5:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 14,
      "text": "I have almost been in all evil, in the midst of the church and of the congregation.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 5:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 15,
      "text": "Drink water out of thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 5:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "Let thy fountains be conveyed abroad, and in the streets divide thy waters.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 5:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "Keep them to thyself alone, neither let strangers be partakers with thee.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 5:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 18,
      "text": "Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 5:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 19,
      "text": "Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times: be thou delighted continually with her love.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 5:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 20,
      "text": "Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another?",
      "citation": "Proverbs 5:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 21,
      "text": "The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 5:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 22,
      "text": "His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 5:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 23,
      "text": "He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.",
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