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    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 23
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 23,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-23:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.23.1",
        "text": "Then Job answered and said,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-23:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.23.2",
        "text": "Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-23:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.23.3",
        "text": "Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-23:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.23.4",
        "text": "I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-23:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.23.5",
        "text": "I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would say unto me."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-23:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.23.6",
        "text": "Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-23:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.23.7",
        "text": "There the upright might reason with him; So should I be delivered for ever from my judge."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-23:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.23.8",
        "text": "Behold, I go forward, but he is not [there]; And backward, but I cannot perceive him;"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-23:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.23.9",
        "text": "On the left hand, when he doth work, but I cannot behold       him; He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-23:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.23.10",
        "text": "But he knoweth the way that I take; When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-23:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.23.11",
        "text": "My foot hath held fast to his steps; His way have I kept, and turned not aside."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-23:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.23.12",
        "text": "I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my       necessary food."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-23:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.23.13",
        "text": "But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, even that he doeth."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-23:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.23.14",
        "text": "For he performeth that which is appointed for me: And many such things are with him."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-23:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.23.15",
        "text": "Therefore am I terrified at his presence; When I consider, I am afraid of him."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-23:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.23.16",
        "text": "For God hath made my heart faint, And the Almighty hath terrified me;"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-23:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.23.17",
        "text": "Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face."
      }
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