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    "book": "ecclesiastes",
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "ECC-4:1",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.4.1",
        "text": "Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and, behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "ECC-4:2",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.4.2",
        "text": "Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "ECC-4:3",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.4.3",
        "text": "yea, better than them both [did I esteem] him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "ECC-4:4",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.4.4",
        "text": "Then I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "ECC-4:5",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.4.5",
        "text": "The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "ECC-4:6",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.4.6",
        "text": "Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after wind."
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        "n": 7,
        "refId": "ECC-4:7",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.4.7",
        "text": "Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "ECC-4:8",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.4.8",
        "text": "There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, [saith he], do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "ECC-4:9",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.4.9",
        "text": "Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "ECC-4:10",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.4.10",
        "text": "For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and hath not another to lift him up."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "ECC-4:11",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.4.11",
        "text": "Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm [alone]?"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "ECC-4:12",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.4.12",
        "text": "And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "ECC-4:13",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.4.13",
        "text": "Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "ECC-4:14",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.4.14",
        "text": "For out of prison he came forth to be king; yea, even in his kingdom he was born poor."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "ECC-4:15",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.4.15",
        "text": "I saw all the living that walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the second, that stood up in his stead."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "ECC-4:16",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.4.16",
        "text": "There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was: yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind."
      }
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