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  "apiVersion": "v1",
  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 20
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 20,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-20:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.1",
        "text": "Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-20:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.2",
        "text": "Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-20:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.3",
        "text": "I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame; And the spirit of my understanding answereth me."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-20:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.4",
        "text": "Knowest thou [not] this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth,"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-20:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.5",
        "text": "That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment?"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-20:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.6",
        "text": "Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds;"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-20:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.7",
        "text": "Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-20:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.8",
        "text": "He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-20:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.9",
        "text": "The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-20:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.10",
        "text": "His children shall seek the favor of the poor, And his hands shall give back his wealth."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-20:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.11",
        "text": "His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-20:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.12",
        "text": "Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-20:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.13",
        "text": "Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-20:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.14",
        "text": "Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-20:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.15",
        "text": "He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them       up again; God will cast them out of his belly."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-20:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.16",
        "text": "He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper`s tongue shall slay him."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-20:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.17",
        "text": "He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-20:18",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.18",
        "text": "That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall       not swallow it down; According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not       rejoice."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-20:19",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.19",
        "text": "For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it       up."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-20:20",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.20",
        "text": "Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-20:21",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.21",
        "text": "There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JOB-20:22",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.22",
        "text": "In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JOB-20:23",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.23",
        "text": "When he is about to fill his belly, [God] will cast the       fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he is eating."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JOB-20:24",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.24",
        "text": "He shall flee from the iron weapon, And the bow of brass shall strike him through."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JOB-20:25",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.25",
        "text": "He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall: Terrors are upon him."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "JOB-20:26",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.26",
        "text": "All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown [by man] shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "JOB-20:27",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.27",
        "text": "The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "JOB-20:28",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.28",
        "text": "The increase of his house shall depart; [His goods] shall flow away in the day of his wrath."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "JOB-20:29",
        "verseRef": "Job.20.29",
        "text": "This is the portion of a wicked man from God, And the heritage appointed unto him by God."
      }
    ]
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