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  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 18
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 18,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-18:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.1",
        "text": "Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-18:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.2",
        "text": "How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-18:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.3",
        "text": "Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [And] are become unclean in your sight?"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-18:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.4",
        "text": "Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-18:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.5",
        "text": "Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-18:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.6",
        "text": "The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-18:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.7",
        "text": "The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-18:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.8",
        "text": "For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-18:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.9",
        "text": "A gin shall take [him] by the heel, [And] a snare shall lay hold on him."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-18:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.10",
        "text": "A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-18:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.11",
        "text": "Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-18:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.12",
        "text": "His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-18:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.13",
        "text": "The members of his body shall be devoured, [Yea], the first-born of death shall devour his members."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-18:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.14",
        "text": "He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-18:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.15",
        "text": "There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-18:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.16",
        "text": "His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-18:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.17",
        "text": "His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-18:18",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.18",
        "text": "He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-18:19",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.19",
        "text": "He shall have neither son nor son`s son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-18:20",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.20",
        "text": "They that come after shall be astonished at his day, As they that went before were affrighted."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-18:21",
        "verseRef": "Job.18.21",
        "text": "Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, And this is the place of him that knoweth not God."
      }
    ]
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