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    "chapter": 23
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    "n": 23,
    "bookSlug": "proverbs",
    "bookCode": "PRO",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PRO-23:1",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.1",
        "text": "When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee;"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PRO-23:2",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.2",
        "text": "And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PRO-23:3",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.3",
        "text": "Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PRO-23:4",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.4",
        "text": "Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PRO-23:5",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.5",
        "text": "Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For [riches] certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PRO-23:6",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.6",
        "text": "Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PRO-23:7",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.7",
        "text": "For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PRO-23:8",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.8",
        "text": "The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PRO-23:9",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.9",
        "text": "Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PRO-23:10",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.10",
        "text": "Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PRO-23:11",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.11",
        "text": "For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PRO-23:12",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.12",
        "text": "Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PRO-23:13",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.13",
        "text": "Withhold not correction from the child; [For] if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PRO-23:14",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.14",
        "text": "Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PRO-23:15",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.15",
        "text": "My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PRO-23:16",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.16",
        "text": "Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PRO-23:17",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.17",
        "text": "Let not thy heart envy sinners; But [be thou] in the fear of Jehovah all the day long:"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "PRO-23:18",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.18",
        "text": "For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "PRO-23:19",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.19",
        "text": "Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "PRO-23:20",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.20",
        "text": "Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "PRO-23:21",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.21",
        "text": "For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe [a man] with rags."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "PRO-23:22",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.22",
        "text": "Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "PRO-23:23",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.23",
        "text": "Buy the truth, and sell it not; [Yea], wisdom, and instruction, and understanding."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "PRO-23:24",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.24",
        "text": "The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "PRO-23:25",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.25",
        "text": "Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "PRO-23:26",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.26",
        "text": "My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "PRO-23:27",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.27",
        "text": "For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "PRO-23:28",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.28",
        "text": "Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "PRO-23:29",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.29",
        "text": "Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?"
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "PRO-23:30",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.30",
        "text": "They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "PRO-23:31",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.31",
        "text": "Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly:"
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "PRO-23:32",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.32",
        "text": "At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "PRO-23:33",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.33",
        "text": "Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things."
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "PRO-23:34",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.34",
        "text": "Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of       the sea, Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast."
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "PRO-23:35",
        "verseRef": "Prov.23.35",
        "text": "They have stricken me, [shalt thou say], and I was not       hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again."
      }
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