{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Proverbs",
 "chapter": 6,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:"
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,"
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?"
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:"
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;"
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:"
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,"
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,"
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:"
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:"
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids."
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life."
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?"
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?"
  },
  {
   "v": 29,
   "t": "So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent."
  },
  {
   "v": 30,
   "t": "Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;"
  },
  {
   "v": 31,
   "t": "But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house."
  },
  {
   "v": 32,
   "t": "But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul."
  },
  {
   "v": 33,
   "t": "A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away."
  },
  {
   "v": 34,
   "t": "For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance."
  },
  {
   "v": 35,
   "t": "He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts."
  }
 ],
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