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    "language": "en",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 22
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    "n": 22,
    "bookSlug": "proverbs",
    "bookCode": "PRO",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PRO-22:1",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.1",
        "text": "A [good] name is rather to be chosen than great riches, [And] loving favor rather than silver and gold."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PRO-22:2",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.2",
        "text": "The rich and the poor meet together: Jehovah is the maker of them all."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PRO-22:3",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.3",
        "text": "A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PRO-22:4",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.4",
        "text": "The reward of humility [and] the fear of Jehovah [Is] riches, and honor, and life."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PRO-22:5",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.5",
        "text": "Thorns [and] snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PRO-22:6",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.6",
        "text": "Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PRO-22:7",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.7",
        "text": "The rich ruleth over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the lender."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PRO-22:8",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.8",
        "text": "He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PRO-22:9",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.9",
        "text": "He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; For he giveth of his bread to the poor."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PRO-22:10",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.10",
        "text": "Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PRO-22:11",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.11",
        "text": "He that loveth pureness of heart, [For] the grace of his lips the king will be his friend."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PRO-22:12",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.12",
        "text": "The eyes of Jehovah preserve [him that hath] knowledge; But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PRO-22:13",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.13",
        "text": "The sluggard saith, There is a lion without: I shall be slain in the streets."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PRO-22:14",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.14",
        "text": "The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PRO-22:15",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.15",
        "text": "Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; [But] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PRO-22:16",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.16",
        "text": "He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [gain], [And] he that giveth to the rich, [shall come] only to want."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PRO-22:17",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.17",
        "text": "Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, And apply thy heart unto my knowledge."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "PRO-22:18",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.18",
        "text": "For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "PRO-22:19",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.19",
        "text": "That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I have made [them] known to thee this day, even to thee."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "PRO-22:20",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.20",
        "text": "Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "PRO-22:21",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.21",
        "text": "To make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, That thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send       thee?"
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "PRO-22:22",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.22",
        "text": "Rob not the poor, because he is poor; Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:"
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "PRO-22:23",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.23",
        "text": "For Jehovah will plead their cause, And despoil of life those that despoil them."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "PRO-22:24",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.24",
        "text": "Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:"
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "PRO-22:25",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.25",
        "text": "Lest thou learn this ways, And get a snare to thy soul."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "PRO-22:26",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.26",
        "text": "Be thou not one of them that strike hands, [Or] of them that are sureties for debts."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "PRO-22:27",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.27",
        "text": "If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?"
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "PRO-22:28",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.28",
        "text": "Remove not the ancient landmark, Which thy fathers have set."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "PRO-22:29",
        "verseRef": "Prov.22.29",
        "text": "Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall       stand before kings; He shall not stand before mean men."
      }
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