text: {"response":[{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"1","text":"When you sit down to eat with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you,"},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"2","text":"and put a knife to your throat if you possess a large appetite."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"3","text":"Do not crave that ruler\u2019s delicacies, for that food is deceptive."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"4","text":"Do not wear yourself out to become rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"5","text":"When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!"},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"6","text":"Do not eat the food of a stingy person, do not crave his delicacies;"},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"7","text":"for he is like someone calculating the cost in his mind. \u201cEat and drink,\u201d he says to you, but his heart is not with you;"},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"8","text":"you will vomit up the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"9","text":"Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"10","text":"Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,"},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"11","text":"for their Protector is strong; he will plead their case against you."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"12","text":"Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to the words of knowledge."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"13","text":"Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die. "},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"14","text":"If you strike him with the rod, you will deliver him from death."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"15","text":"My child, if your heart is wise, then my heart also will be glad;"},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"16","text":"my soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"17","text":"Do not let your heart envy sinners, but rather be zealous in fearing the Lord all the time."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"18","text":"For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"19","text":"Listen, my child, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"20","text":"Do not spend time among drunkards, among those who eat too much meat,"},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"21","text":"because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"22","text":"Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"23","text":"Acquire truth and do not sell it &#8211; wisdom, and discipline, and understanding."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"24","text":"The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; whoever fathers a wise child will have joy in him."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"25","text":"May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"26","text":"Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes observe my ways;"},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"27","text":"for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"28","text":"Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"29","text":"Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has dullness of the eyes?"},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"30","text":"Those who linger over wine, those who go looking for mixed wine."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"31","text":"Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"32","text":"Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"33","text":"Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"34","text":"And you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, and like one who lies down on the top of the rigging."},{"bookname":"Proverbs","chapter":"23","verse":"35","text":"You will say, \u201cThey have struck me, but I am not harmed! They beat me, but I did not know it! When will I awake? I will look for another drink.\u201d"}]}