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  "citation": "Proverbs 8 (Douay-Rheims)",
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    {
      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice?",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst of the paths,",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 4,
      "text": "O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 5,
      "text": "O little ones understand subtlety, and ye unwise, take notice.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Hear, for I will speak of great things: and my lips shall be opened to preach right things.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "All my words are just, there is nothing wicked, nor perverse in them.",
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    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Receive my instruction, and not money: choose knowledge rather than gold.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to it.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "I, wisdom, dwell in counsel, and am present in learned thoughts.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "The fear of the Lord hateth evil; I hate arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "By me kings reign, and lawgivers decree just things.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "By me princes rule, and the mighty decree justice.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early watch for me, shall find me.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 20,
      "text": "I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment,",
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    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "That I may enrich them that love me, and may fill their treasures.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "I was set up from eternity, and of old, before the earth was made.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived, neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "The mountains, with their huge bulk, had not as yet been established: before the hills, I was brought forth:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law, and compass, he enclosed the depths:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters:",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 29,
      "text": "When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when he balanced the foundations of the earth;",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:29 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 30,
      "text": "I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times;",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:30 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 31,
      "text": "Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:31 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 32,
      "text": "Now, therefore, ye children, hear me: blessed are they that keep my ways.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:32 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 33,
      "text": "Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:33 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 34,
      "text": "Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:34 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 35,
      "text": "He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:35 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 36,
      "text": "But he that shall sin against me shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.",
      "citation": "Proverbs 8:36 (Douay-Rheims)"
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