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    "chapter": 6
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    "n": 6,
    "bookSlug": "proverbs",
    "bookCode": "PRO",
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    "title": "",
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    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PRO-6:1",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.1",
        "text": "My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger;"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PRO-6:2",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.2",
        "text": "Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PRO-6:3",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.3",
        "text": "Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, Seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbor: Go, humble thyself, and importune thy neighbor;"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PRO-6:4",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.4",
        "text": "Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PRO-6:5",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.5",
        "text": "Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], And as a bird from the hand of the fowler."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PRO-6:6",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.6",
        "text": "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise:"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PRO-6:7",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.7",
        "text": "Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PRO-6:8",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.8",
        "text": "Provideth her bread in the summer, And gathereth her food in the harvest."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PRO-6:9",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.9",
        "text": "How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PRO-6:10",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.10",
        "text": "[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PRO-6:11",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.11",
        "text": "So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PRO-6:12",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.12",
        "text": "A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth;"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PRO-6:13",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.13",
        "text": "That winketh with his eyes, that speaketh with his feet, That maketh signs with his fingers;"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PRO-6:14",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.14",
        "text": "In whose heart is perverseness, Who deviseth evil continually, Who soweth discord."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PRO-6:15",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.15",
        "text": "Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; On a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PRO-6:16",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.16",
        "text": "There are six things which Jehovah hateth; Yea, seven which are an abomination unto him:"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PRO-6:17",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.17",
        "text": "Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "PRO-6:18",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.18",
        "text": "A heart that deviseth wicked purposes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "PRO-6:19",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.19",
        "text": "A false witness that uttereth lies, And he that soweth discord among brethren."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "PRO-6:20",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.20",
        "text": "My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "PRO-6:21",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.21",
        "text": "Bind them continually upon thy heart; Tie them about thy neck."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "PRO-6:22",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.22",
        "text": "When thou walkest, it shall lead thee; When thou sleepest, it shall watch over thee; And when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "PRO-6:23",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.23",
        "text": "For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; And reproofs of instruction are the way of life:"
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "PRO-6:24",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.24",
        "text": "To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner`s tongue."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "PRO-6:25",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.25",
        "text": "Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "PRO-6:26",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.26",
        "text": "For on account of a harlot [a man is brought] to a piece       of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "PRO-6:27",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.27",
        "text": "Can a man take fire in his bosom, And his clothes not be burned?"
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "PRO-6:28",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.28",
        "text": "Or can one walk upon hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?"
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "PRO-6:29",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.29",
        "text": "So he that goeth in to his neighbor`s wife; Whosoever toucheth her shall not be unpunished."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "PRO-6:30",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.30",
        "text": "Men do not despise a thief, if he steal To satisfy himself when he is hungry:"
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "PRO-6:31",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.31",
        "text": "But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; He shall give all the substance of his house."
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "PRO-6:32",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.32",
        "text": "He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of       understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "PRO-6:33",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.33",
        "text": "Wounds and dishonor shall he get; And his reproach shall not be wiped away."
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "PRO-6:34",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.34",
        "text": "For jealousy is the rage of a man; And he will not spare in the day of vengeance."
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "PRO-6:35",
        "verseRef": "Prov.6.35",
        "text": "He will not regard any ransom; Neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts."
      }
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