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  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 29
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 29,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-29:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.1",
        "text": "And Job again took up his parable, and said,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-29:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.2",
        "text": "Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-29:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.3",
        "text": "When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-29:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.4",
        "text": "As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-29:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.5",
        "text": "When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were about me;"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-29:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.6",
        "text": "When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-29:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.7",
        "text": "When I went forth to the gate unto the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-29:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.8",
        "text": "The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-29:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.9",
        "text": "The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-29:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.10",
        "text": "The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-29:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.11",
        "text": "For when the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; And when the eye saw [me], it gave witness unto me:"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-29:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.12",
        "text": "Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-29:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.13",
        "text": "The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon       me; And I caused the widow`s heart to sing for joy."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-29:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.14",
        "text": "I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was as a robe and a diadem."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-29:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.15",
        "text": "I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-29:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.16",
        "text": "I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-29:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.17",
        "text": "And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-29:18",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.18",
        "text": "Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-29:19",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.19",
        "text": "My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch;"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-29:20",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.20",
        "text": "My glory is fresh in me, And my bow is renewed in my hand."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-29:21",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.21",
        "text": "Unto me men gave ear, and waited, And kept silence for my counsel."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JOB-29:22",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.22",
        "text": "After my words they spake not again; And my speech distilled upon them."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JOB-29:23",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.23",
        "text": "And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide [as] for the latter rain."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JOB-29:24",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.24",
        "text": "I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JOB-29:25",
        "verseRef": "Job.29.25",
        "text": "I chose out their way, and sat [as] chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners."
      }
    ]
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