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    "language": "en",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 2
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  "data": {
    "n": 2,
    "bookSlug": "proverbs",
    "bookCode": "PRO",
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    "title": "",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PRO-2:1",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.1",
        "text": "My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PRO-2:2",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.2",
        "text": "So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PRO-2:3",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.3",
        "text": "Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PRO-2:4",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.4",
        "text": "If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PRO-2:5",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.5",
        "text": "Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PRO-2:6",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.6",
        "text": "For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding:"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PRO-2:7",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.7",
        "text": "He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; [He is] a shield to them that walk in integrity;"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PRO-2:8",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.8",
        "text": "That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PRO-2:9",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.9",
        "text": "Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, [yea], every good path."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PRO-2:10",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.10",
        "text": "For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PRO-2:11",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.11",
        "text": "Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PRO-2:12",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.12",
        "text": "To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PRO-2:13",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.13",
        "text": "Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PRO-2:14",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.14",
        "text": "Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PRO-2:15",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.15",
        "text": "Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PRO-2:16",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.16",
        "text": "To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PRO-2:17",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.17",
        "text": "That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "PRO-2:18",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.18",
        "text": "For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "PRO-2:19",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.19",
        "text": "None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "PRO-2:20",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.20",
        "text": "That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "PRO-2:21",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.21",
        "text": "For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "PRO-2:22",
        "verseRef": "Prov.2.22",
        "text": "But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it."
      }
    ]
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