1. He that feareth the Lord will do good, and he that hath the knowledge of the law shall obtain her.

2. And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.

3. With the bread of understanding shall she feed him, and give him the water of wisdom to drink.

4. He shall be stayed upon her, and shall not be moved; and shall rely upon her, and shall not be confounded.

5. She shall exalt him above his neighbours, and in the midst of the congregation shall she open his mouth.

6. He shall find joy and a crown of gladness, and she shall cause him to inherit an everlasting name.

7. But foolish men shall not attain unto her, and sinners shall not see her.

8. For she is far from pride, and men that are liars cannot remember her.

9. Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord.

10. For praise shall be uttered in wisdom, and the Lord will prosper it.

11. Say not thou, It is through the Lord that I fell away: for thou oughtest not to do the things that he hateth.

12. Say not thou, He hath caused me to err: for he hath no need of the sinful man.

13. The Lord hateth all abomination; and they that fear God love it not.

14. He himself made man from the beginning, and left him in the hand of his counsel;

15. If thou wilt, to keep the commandments, and to perform acceptable faithfulness.

16. He hath set fire and water before thee: stretch forth thy hand unto whether thou wilt.

17. Before man is life and death; and whether him liketh shall be given him.

18. For the wisdom of the Lord is great, and he is mighty in power, and beholdeth all things:

19. And his eyes are upon them that fear him, and he knoweth every work of man.

20. He hath commanded no man to do wickedly, neither hath he given any man licence to sin.

About this reader

What is Scripture?

Scripture is a browser-based reader for sixteen sacred texts spanning multiple religious and literary traditions. It provides chapter-by-chapter navigation, full-text search across all works, word concordance with frequency analysis, verse-linked notes, text-to-speech, and deep linking to any chapter or verse.

Traditions Represented

The collection spans Abrahamic, East Asian, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Finnish, and Norse traditions. It includes King James biblical text and Apocrypha, Pickthall's Quran, the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, Legge's Four Books, Tao Te Ching, and Book of Poetry, Chamberlain's Kojiki, West's Bundahishn, Kern's Lotus Sutra, Haug and West's Arda Viraf, Crawford's Kalevala, and Bellows' Poetic Edda.

The committed manifests and chapter files currently describe 121 books, 2,724 chapters, and 63,141 verse records. In poetry and prose works, a verse record can represent a line or paragraph rather than a canonically numbered scriptural verse.

Licensing

The application source is AGPL-3.0. Generated text downloads and their structured arrangement are CC BY-SA 4.0; the underlying historic source texts are treated as public-domain inputs. The corpus metadata therefore describes the distributed arrangement with its CC BY-SA license rather than the Public Domain Mark.

Concordance and Related Passages

The concordance is an exact-word occurrence index with linked records grouped by work. Related Passages is separate: a TF-IDF (term frequency-inverse document frequency) cosine-similarity index compares chapter vocabulary after stop-word removal and stores up to five cross-book matches above its threshold. It is a lexical discovery aid, not a claim of historical or theological equivalence.

Deep Linking

Every chapter and verse has a permanent URL. Chapter links follow the pattern /scripture/{work}/{book}-{chapter} (e.g., /scripture/ot/gen-1 for Genesis 1). Verse links append the verse number (e.g., /scripture/ot/gen-1:26 for Genesis 1:26). These URLs can be shared, bookmarked, or cited directly.

Accessibility

Scripture supports keyboard navigation throughout: Tab moves between controls, Enter activates verse actions, and arrow keys navigate chapters. The reading pane has a skip-to-content link. All overlays (search, concordance) are focus-trapped ARIA dialogs. Dynamic content regions use aria-live for screen reader announcements. Light and dark themes are available through the theme toggle. Verse numbers are visible to assistive technology. No flashing content or motion hazards.

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