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  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 16
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 16,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-16:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.1",
        "text": "Then Job answered and said,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-16:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.2",
        "text": "I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-16:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.3",
        "text": "Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-16:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.4",
        "text": "I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul`s stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-16:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.5",
        "text": "[But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage [your grief]."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-16:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.6",
        "text": "Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-16:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.7",
        "text": "But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-16:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.8",
        "text": "And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness       [against me]: And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-16:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.9",
        "text": "He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-16:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.10",
        "text": "They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-16:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.11",
        "text": "God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-16:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.12",
        "text": "I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-16:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.13",
        "text": "His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-16:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.14",
        "text": "He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-16:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.15",
        "text": "I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-16:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.16",
        "text": "My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-16:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.17",
        "text": "Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-16:18",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.18",
        "text": "O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have no [resting] -place."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-16:19",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.19",
        "text": "Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, And he that voucheth for me is on high."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-16:20",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.20",
        "text": "My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God,"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-16:21",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.21",
        "text": "That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!"
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JOB-16:22",
        "verseRef": "Job.16.22",
        "text": "For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return."
      }
    ]
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