{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Proverbs",
 "chapter": 22,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,"
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?"
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:"
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:"
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul."
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts."
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?"
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set."
  },
  {
   "v": 29,
   "t": "Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men."
  }
 ],
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 "blessing": "The Word is public domain. So is grace."
}