1. He that loveth his son causeth him oft to feel the rod, that he may have joy of him in the end.

2. He that chastiseth his son shall have joy in him, and shall rejoice of him among his acquaintance.

3. He that teacheth his son grieveth the enemy: and before his friends he shall rejoice of him.

4. Though his father die, yet he is as though he were not dead: for he hath left one behind him that is like himself.

5. While he lived, he saw and rejoiced in him: and when he died, he was not sorrowful.

6. He left behind him an avenger against his enemies, and one that shall requite kindness to his friends.

7. He that maketh too much of his son shall bind up his wounds; and his bowels will be troubled at every cry.

8. An horse not broken becometh headstrong: and a child left to himself will be wilful.

9. Cocker thy child, and he shall make thee afraid: play with him, and he will bring thee to heaviness.

10. Laugh not with him, lest thou have sorrow with him, and lest thou gnash thy teeth in the end.

11. Give him no liberty in his youth, and wink not at his follies.

12. Bow down his neck while he is young, and beat him on the sides while he is a child, lest he wax stubborn, and be disobedient unto thee, and so bring sorrow to thine heart.

13. Chastise thy son, and hold him to labour, lest his lewd behaviour be an offence unto thee.

14. Better is the poor, being sound and strong of constitution, than a rich man that is afflicted in his body.

15. Health and good estate of body are above all gold, and a strong body above infinite wealth.

16. There is no riches above a sound body, and no joy above the joy of the heart.

17. Death is better than a bitter life or continual sickness.

18. Delicates poured upon a mouth shut up are as messes of meat set upon a grave.

19. What good doeth the offering unto an idol? for neither can it eat nor smell: so is he that is persecuted of the Lord.

20. He seeth with his eyes and groaneth, as an eunuch that embraceth a virgin and sigheth.

21. Give not over thy mind to heaviness, and afflict not thyself in thine own counsel.

22. The gladness of the heart is the life of man, and the joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.

23. Love thine own soul, and comfort thy heart, remove sorrow far from thee: for sorrow hath killed many, and there is no profit therein.

24. Envy and wrath shorten the life, and carefulness bringeth age before the time.

25. A cheerful and good heart will have a care of his meat and diet.

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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