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    {
      "verse": 1,
      "text": "I myself am a mortal man, like all others, and of the race of him, that was first made of the earth, and in the womb of my mother I was fashioned to be flesh.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "In the time of ten months I was compacted in blood, of the seed of man, and the pleasure of sleep concurring.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "And being born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, that is made alike, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "I was nursed in swaddling clothes, and with great cares.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "For none of the kings had any other beginning of birth.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "Wherefore I wished, and understanding was given me: and I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came upon me:",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "And I preferred her before kingdoms and thrones, and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "Neither did I compare unto her any precious stone: for all gold, in comparison of her, is as a little sand; and silver, in respect to her, shall be counted as clay.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "I loved her above health and beauty, and chose to have her instead of light: for her light cannot be put out.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "Now all good things came to me together with her, and innumerable riches through her hands,",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "And I rejoiced in all these: for this wisdom went before me, and I knew not that she was the mother of them all.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 13,
      "text": "Which I have learned without guile, and communicate without envy, and her riches I hide not.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 14,
      "text": "For she is an infinite treasure to men: which they that use, become the friends of God, being commended for the gifts of discipline.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "And God hath given to me to speak as I would, and to conceive thoughts worthy of those things that are given me: because he is the guide of wisdom, and the director of the wise:",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "For in his hand are both we, and our words, and all wisdom, and the knowledge and skill of works.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "For he hath given me the true knowledge of the things that are: to know the disposition of the whole world, and the virtues of the elements,",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "The beginning, and ending, and midst of the times, the alterations of their courses, and the changes of seasons,",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "The revolutions of the year, and the dispositions of the stars,",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "The natures of living creatures, and rage of wild beasts, the force of winds, and reasonings of men, the diversities of plants, and the virtues of roots,",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "And all such things as are hid, and not foreseen, I have learned: for wisdom, which is the worker of all things, taught me.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "For in her is the spirit of understanding; holy, one, manifold, subtile, eloquent, active, undefiled, sure, sweet, loving that which is good, quick, which nothing hindereth, beneficent,",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "Gentle, kind, steadfast, assured, secure, having all power, overseeing all things, and containing all spirits: intelligible, pure, subtile:",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "For wisdom is more active than all active things; and reacheth everywhere, by reason of her purity.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "For she is a vapour of the power of God, and a certain pure emmanation of the glory of the Almighty God: and therefore no defiled thing cometh into her.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "For she is the brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted mirror of God's majesty, and the image of his goodness.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "And being but one, she can do all things: and remaining in herself the same, she reneweth all things, and through nations conveyeth herself into holy souls, she maketh the friends of God and prophets.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with wisdom.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 29,
      "text": "For she is more beautiful than the sun, and above all the order of the stars: being compared with the light, she is found before it.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:29 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 30,
      "text": "For after this cometh night, but no evil can overcome wisdom.",
      "citation": "Wisdom 7:30 (Douay-Rheims)"
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