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    "content": "Proverbs, Chapter 6 — 35 verses (Douay-Rheims)",
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  "citation": "Proverbs 6 (Douay-Rheims)",
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    {
      "verse": 1,
      "text": "My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, thou hast engaged fast thy hand to a stranger,",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy own words.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 3,
      "text": "Do, therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste, stir up thy friend:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 4,
      "text": "Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 7,
      "text": "Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain,",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "Provideth her meat for herself in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Thou wilt sleep a little, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to sleep:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "And want shall come upon thee, as a traveller, and poverty as a man armed. But if thou be diligent, thy harvest shall come as a fountain, and want shall flee far from thee.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "He winketh with the eyes, presseth with the foot, speaketh with the finger.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "With a wicked heart he deviseth evil, and at all times he soweth discord.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "To such a one his destruction shall presently come, and he shall suddenly be destroyed, and shall no longer have any remedy.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh his soul detesteth:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "A heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief,",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "A deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and him that soweth discord among brethren.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "My son, keep the commandments of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "When thou walkest, let them go with thee: when thou sleepest, let them keep thee, and when thou awakest, talk with them.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "Because the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "Let not thy heart covet her beauty, be not caught with her winks:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "Can a man hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn?",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "Or can he walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt?",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 29,
      "text": "So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife, shall not be clean when he shall touch her.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:29 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 30,
      "text": "The fault is not so great when a man hath stolen: for he stealeth to fill his hungry soul:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:30 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 31,
      "text": "And if he be taken, he shall restore sevenfold, and shall give up all the substance of his house.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:31 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 32,
      "text": "But he that is an adulterer, for the folly of his heart shall destroy his own soul:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:32 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 33,
      "text": "He gathereth to himself shame and dishonour, and his reproach shall not be blotted out:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:33 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 34,
      "text": "Because the jealousy and rage of the husband will not spare in the day of revenge,",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:34 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 35,
      "text": "Nor will he yield to any man's prayers, nor will he accept for satisfaction ever so many gifts.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 6:35 (Douay-Rheims)"
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