{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Proverbs",
 "chapter": 5,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:"
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:"
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:"
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;"
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,"
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;"
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!"
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?"
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray."
  }
 ],
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 "blessing": "The Word is public domain. So is grace."
}