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    "language": "en",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 5
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 5,
    "bookSlug": "proverbs",
    "bookCode": "PRO",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PRO-5:1",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.1",
        "text": "My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding:"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PRO-5:2",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.2",
        "text": "That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PRO-5:3",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.3",
        "text": "For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PRO-5:4",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.4",
        "text": "But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PRO-5:5",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.5",
        "text": "Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PRO-5:6",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.6",
        "text": "So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, [and] she knoweth [it] not."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PRO-5:7",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.7",
        "text": "Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PRO-5:8",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.8",
        "text": "Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PRO-5:9",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.9",
        "text": "Lest thou give thine honor unto others, And thy years unto the cruel;"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PRO-5:10",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.10",
        "text": "Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors [be] in the house of an alien,"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PRO-5:11",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.11",
        "text": "And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PRO-5:12",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.12",
        "text": "And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PRO-5:13",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.13",
        "text": "Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PRO-5:14",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.14",
        "text": "I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PRO-5:15",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.15",
        "text": "Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PRO-5:16",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.16",
        "text": "Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PRO-5:17",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.17",
        "text": "Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "PRO-5:18",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.18",
        "text": "Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "PRO-5:19",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.19",
        "text": "[As] a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "PRO-5:20",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.20",
        "text": "For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a       strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "PRO-5:21",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.21",
        "text": "For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "PRO-5:22",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.22",
        "text": "His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "PRO-5:23",
        "verseRef": "Prov.5.23",
        "text": "He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray."
      }
    ]
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