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    "chapter": 10
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    "bookSlug": "ecclesiastes",
    "bookCode": "ECC",
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "ECC-10:1",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.10.1",
        "text": "Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; [so] doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "ECC-10:2",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.10.2",
        "text": "A wise man`s heart is at his right hand; but a fool`s heart at his left."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "ECC-10:3",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.10.3",
        "text": "Yea also, when the fool walketh by the way, his understanding faileth him, and he saith to every one [that] he is a fool."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "ECC-10:4",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.10.4",
        "text": "If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for gentleness allayeth great offences."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "ECC-10:5",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.10.5",
        "text": "There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceedeth from the ruler:"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "ECC-10:6",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.10.6",
        "text": "folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "ECC-10:7",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.10.7",
        "text": "I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking like servants upon the earth."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "ECC-10:8",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.10.8",
        "text": "He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "ECC-10:9",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.10.9",
        "text": "Whoso heweth out stones shall be hurt therewith; [and] he that cleaveth wood is endangered thereby."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "ECC-10:10",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.10.10",
        "text": "If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "ECC-10:11",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.10.11",
        "text": "If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "ECC-10:12",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.10.12",
        "text": "The words of a wise man`s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "ECC-10:13",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.10.13",
        "text": "The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "ECC-10:14",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.10.14",
        "text": "A fool also multiplieth words: [yet] man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "ECC-10:15",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.10.15",
        "text": "The labor of fools wearieth every one of them; for he knoweth not how to go to the city."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "ECC-10:16",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.10.16",
        "text": "Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "ECC-10:17",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.10.17",
        "text": "Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "ECC-10:18",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.10.18",
        "text": "By slothfulness the roof sinketh in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "ECC-10:19",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.10.19",
        "text": "A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh glad the life; and money answereth all things."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "ECC-10:20",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.10.20",
        "text": "Revile not the king, no, not in thy thought; and revile not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the heavens shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter."
      }
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