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    "language": "en",
    "book": "proverbs",
    "chapter": 8
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 8,
    "bookSlug": "proverbs",
    "bookCode": "PRO",
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    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "PRO-8:1",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.1",
        "text": "Doth not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her voice?"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "PRO-8:2",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.2",
        "text": "On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she standeth;"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "PRO-8:3",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.3",
        "text": "Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "PRO-8:4",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.4",
        "text": "Unto you, O men, I call; And my voice is to the sons of men."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "PRO-8:5",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.5",
        "text": "O ye simple, understand prudence; And, ye fools, be of an understanding heart."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "PRO-8:6",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.6",
        "text": "Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my lips shall be right things."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "PRO-8:7",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.7",
        "text": "For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "PRO-8:8",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.8",
        "text": "All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing crooked or perverse in them."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "PRO-8:9",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.9",
        "text": "They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right to them that find knowledge."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "PRO-8:10",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.10",
        "text": "Receive my instruction, and not silver; And knowledge rather than choice gold."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "PRO-8:11",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.11",
        "text": "For wisdom is better than rubies; And all the things that may be desired are not to be compared       unto it."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "PRO-8:12",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.12",
        "text": "I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find out knowledge [and] discretion."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "PRO-8:13",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.13",
        "text": "The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "PRO-8:14",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.14",
        "text": "Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am understanding; I have might."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "PRO-8:15",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.15",
        "text": "By me kings reign, And princes decree justice."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "PRO-8:16",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.16",
        "text": "By me princes rule, And nobles, [even] all the judges of the earth."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "PRO-8:17",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.17",
        "text": "I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "PRO-8:18",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.18",
        "text": "Riches and honor are with me; [Yea], durable wealth and righteousness."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "PRO-8:19",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.19",
        "text": "My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; And my revenue than choice silver."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "PRO-8:20",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.20",
        "text": "I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice;"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "PRO-8:21",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.21",
        "text": "That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, And that I may fill their treasuries."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "PRO-8:22",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.22",
        "text": "Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "PRO-8:23",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.23",
        "text": "I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "PRO-8:24",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.24",
        "text": "When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "PRO-8:25",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.25",
        "text": "Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth;"
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "PRO-8:26",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.26",
        "text": "While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "PRO-8:27",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.27",
        "text": "When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,"
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "PRO-8:28",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.28",
        "text": "When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong,"
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "PRO-8:29",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.29",
        "text": "When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;"
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "PRO-8:30",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.30",
        "text": "Then I was by him, [as] a master workman; And I was daily [his] delight, Rejoicing always before him,"
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "PRO-8:31",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.31",
        "text": "Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with the sons of men."
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "PRO-8:32",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.32",
        "text": "Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me; For blessed are they that keep my ways."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "PRO-8:33",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.33",
        "text": "Hear instruction, and be wise, And refuse it not."
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "PRO-8:34",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.34",
        "text": "Blessed is the man that heareth me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors."
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "PRO-8:35",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.35",
        "text": "For whoso findeth me findeth life, And shall obtain favor of Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 36,
        "refId": "PRO-8:36",
        "verseRef": "Prov.8.36",
        "text": "But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death."
      }
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