1. A slothful man is compared to a filthy stone, and every one will hiss him out to his disgrace.

2. A slothful man is compared to the filth of a dunghill: every man that takes it up will shake his hand.

3. An evilnurtured man is the dishonour of his father that begat him: and a foolish daughter is born to his loss.

4. A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance to her husband: but she that liveth dishonestly is her father’s heaviness.

5. She that is bold dishonoureth both her father and her husband, but they both shall despise her.

6. A tale out of season is as musick in mourning: but stripes and correction of wisdom are never out of time.

7. Whoso teacheth a fool is as one that glueth a potsherd together, and as he that waketh one from a sound sleep.

8. He that telleth a tale to a fool speaketh to one in a slumber: when he hath told his tale, he will say, What is the matter?

9. If children live honestly, and have wherewithal, they shall cover the baseness of their parents.

10. But children, being haughty, through disdain and want of nurture do stain the nobility of their kindred.

11. Weep for the dead, for he hath lost the light: and weep for the fool, for he wanteth understanding: make little weeping for the dead, for he is at rest: but the life of the fool is worse than death.

12. Seven days do men mourn for him that is dead; but for a fool and an ungodly man all the days of his life.

13. Talk not much with a fool, and go not to him that hath no understanding: beware of him, lest thou have trouble, and thou shalt never be defiled with his fooleries: depart from him, and thou shalt find rest, and never be disquieted with madness.

14. What is heavier than lead? and what is the name thereof, but a fool?

15. Sand, and salt, and a mass of iron, is easier to bear, than a man without understanding.

16. As timber girt and bound together in a building cannot be loosed with shaking: so the heart that is stablished by advised counsel shall fear at no time.

17. A heart settled upon a thought of understanding is as a fair plastering on the wall of a gallery.

18. Pales set on an high place will never stand against the wind: so a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool cannot stand against any fear.

19. He that pricketh the eye will make tears to fall: and he that pricketh the heart maketh it to shew her knowledge.

20. Whoso casteth a stone at the birds frayeth them away: and he that upbraideth his friend breaketh friendship.

21. Though thou drewest a sword at thy friend, yet despair not: for there may be a returning to favour.

22. If thou hast opened thy mouth against thy friend, fear not; for there may be a reconciliation: except for upbraiding, or pride, or disclosing of secrets, or a treacherous wound: for for these things every friend will depart.

23. Be faithful to thy neighbour in his poverty, that thou mayest rejoice in his prosperity: abide steadfast unto him in the time of his trouble, that thou mayest be heir with him in his heritage: for a mean estate is not always to be contemned: nor the rich that is foolish to be had in admiration.

24. As the vapour and smoke of a furnace goeth before the fire; so reviling before blood.

25. I will not be ashamed to defend a friend; neither will I hide myself from him.

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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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