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  "kind": "Chapter",
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    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 24
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 24,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-24:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.1",
        "text": "Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know him see his days?"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-24:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.2",
        "text": "There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-24:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.3",
        "text": "They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow`s ox for a pledge."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-24:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.4",
        "text": "They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-24:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.5",
        "text": "Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness [yieldeth] them bread for their children."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-24:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.6",
        "text": "They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-24:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.7",
        "text": "They lie all night naked without clothing, And have no covering in the cold."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-24:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.8",
        "text": "They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-24:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.9",
        "text": "There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-24:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.10",
        "text": "[So that] they go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-24:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.11",
        "text": "They make oil within the walls of these men;  They tread [their] winepresses, and suffer thirst."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-24:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.12",
        "text": "From out of the populous city men groan,  And the soul of the wounded crieth out:  Yet God regardeth not the folly."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-24:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.13",
        "text": "These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-24:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.14",
        "text": "The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-24:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.15",
        "text": "The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-24:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.16",
        "text": "In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-24:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.17",
        "text": "For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-24:18",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.18",
        "text": "Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-24:19",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.19",
        "text": "Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [So doth] Sheol [those that] have sinned."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-24:20",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.20",
        "text": "The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-24:21",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.21",
        "text": "He devoureth the barren that beareth not, And doeth not good to the widow."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JOB-24:22",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.22",
        "text": "Yet [God] preserveth the mighty by his power: He riseth up that hath no assurance of life."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JOB-24:23",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.23",
        "text": "[God] giveth them to be in security, and they rest       thereon; And his eyes are upon their ways."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JOB-24:24",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.24",
        "text": "They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; Yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all       others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JOB-24:25",
        "verseRef": "Job.24.25",
        "text": "And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?"
      }
    ]
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