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    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 7
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  "data": {
    "n": 7,
    "bookSlug": "proverbs",
    "bookCode": "PRO",
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    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PRO-7:1",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.1",
        "text": "My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PRO-7:2",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.2",
        "text": "Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PRO-7:3",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.3",
        "text": "Bind them upon thy fingers; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PRO-7:4",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.4",
        "text": "Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; And call understanding [thy] kinswoman:"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PRO-7:5",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.5",
        "text": "That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PRO-7:6",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.6",
        "text": "For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PRO-7:7",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.7",
        "text": "And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PRO-7:8",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.8",
        "text": "Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house,"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PRO-7:9",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.9",
        "text": "In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PRO-7:10",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.10",
        "text": "And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PRO-7:11",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.11",
        "text": "She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PRO-7:12",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.12",
        "text": "Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PRO-7:13",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.13",
        "text": "So she caught him, and kissed him, [And] with an impudent face she said unto him:"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PRO-7:14",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.14",
        "text": "Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me; This day have I paid my vows."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PRO-7:15",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.15",
        "text": "Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PRO-7:16",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.16",
        "text": "I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, With striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PRO-7:17",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.17",
        "text": "I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "PRO-7:18",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.18",
        "text": "Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with loves."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "PRO-7:19",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.19",
        "text": "For the man is not at home; He is gone a long journey:"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "PRO-7:20",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.20",
        "text": "He hath taken a bag of money with him; He will come home at the full moon."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "PRO-7:21",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.21",
        "text": "With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "PRO-7:22",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.22",
        "text": "He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as [one in] fetters to the correction of the fool;"
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "PRO-7:23",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.23",
        "text": "Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "PRO-7:24",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.24",
        "text": "Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me, And attend to the words of my mouth."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "PRO-7:25",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.25",
        "text": "Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "PRO-7:26",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.26",
        "text": "For she hath cast down many wounded: Yea, all her slain are a mighty host."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "PRO-7:27",
        "verseRef": "Prov.7.27",
        "text": "Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death."
      }
    ]
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