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  "citation": "Wisdom 3 (Douay-Rheims)",
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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "But the souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 3:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure was taken for misery:",
      "citation": "Wisdom 3:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "And their going away from us, for utter destruction: but they are in peace.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 3:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "And though in the sight of men they suffered torments, their hope is full of immortality.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 3:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Afflicted in few things, in many they shall be well rewarded: because God hath tried them, and found them worthy of himself.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 3:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "As gold in the furnace, he hath proved them, and as a victim of a holocaust, he hath received them, and in time there shall be respect had to them.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 3:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among the reeds.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 3:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "They shall judge nations, and rule over people, and their Lord shall reign for ever.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 3:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "They that trust in him shall understand the truth: and they that are faithful in love, shall rest in him: for grace and peace are to his elect.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 3:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "But the wicked shall be punished according to their own devices: who have neglected the just, and have revolted from the Lord.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 3:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "For he that rejecteth wisdom, and discipline, is unhappy: and their hope is vain, and their labours without fruit, and their works unprofitable.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 3:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 3:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 13,
      "text": "Their offspring is cursed, for happy is the barren: and the undefiled, that hath not known bed in sin, she shall have fruit in the visitation of holy souls.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 3:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 14,
      "text": "And the eunuch, that hath not wrought iniquity with his hands, nor thought wicked things against God for the precious gift of faith shall be given to him, and a most acceptable lot in the temple of God.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 3:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 15,
      "text": "For the fruit of good labours is glorious, and the root of wisdom never faileth.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 3:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 16,
      "text": "But the children of adulterers shall not come to perfection, and the seed of the unlawful bed shall be rooted out.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 3:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 17,
      "text": "And if they live long, they shall be nothing regarded, and their last old age shall be without honour.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 3:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 18,
      "text": "And if they die quickly, they shall have no hope, nor speech of comfort in the day of trial.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 3:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 19,
      "text": "For dreadful are the ends of a wicked race.",
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