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    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 17
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 17,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-17:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.17.1",
        "text": "My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-17:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.17.2",
        "text": "Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-17:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.17.3",
        "text": "Give now a pledge, be surety for me with thyself; Who is there that will strike hands with me?"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-17:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.17.4",
        "text": "For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shalt thou not exalt [them]."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-17:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.17.5",
        "text": "He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-17:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.17.6",
        "text": "But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-17:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.17.7",
        "text": "Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-17:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.17.8",
        "text": "Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-17:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.17.9",
        "text": "Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-17:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.17.10",
        "text": "But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-17:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.17.11",
        "text": "My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-17:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.17.12",
        "text": "They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-17:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.17.13",
        "text": "If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-17:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.17.14",
        "text": "If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-17:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.17.15",
        "text": "Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-17:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.17.16",
        "text": "It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust."
      }
    ]
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