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  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 30
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 30,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-30:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.1",
        "text": "But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-30:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.2",
        "text": "Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it       profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-30:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.3",
        "text": "They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and       desolation."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-30:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.4",
        "text": "They pluck salt-wort by the bushes;  And the roots of the broom are their food."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-30:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.5",
        "text": "They are driven forth from the midst [of men]; They cry after them as after a thief;"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-30:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.6",
        "text": "So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-30:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.7",
        "text": "Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-30:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.8",
        "text": "[They are] children of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-30:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.9",
        "text": "And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-30:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.10",
        "text": "They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And spare not to spit in my face."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-30:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.11",
        "text": "For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me; And they have cast off the bridle before me."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-30:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.12",
        "text": "Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-30:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.13",
        "text": "They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even] men that have no helper."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-30:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.14",
        "text": "As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me]."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-30:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.15",
        "text": "Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-30:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.16",
        "text": "And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-30:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.17",
        "text": "In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-30:18",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.18",
        "text": "By [God`s] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-30:19",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.19",
        "text": "He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-30:20",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.20",
        "text": "I cry unto thee, and thou dost not answer me: I stand up, and thou gazest at me."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-30:21",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.21",
        "text": "Thou art turned to be cruel to me; With the might of thy hand thou persecutest me."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JOB-30:22",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.22",
        "text": "Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride       [upon it];  And thou dissolvest me in the storm."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JOB-30:23",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.23",
        "text": "For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JOB-30:24",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.24",
        "text": "Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?"
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JOB-30:25",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.25",
        "text": "Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?"
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "JOB-30:26",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.26",
        "text": "When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "JOB-30:27",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.27",
        "text": "My heart is troubled, and resteth not;  Days of affliction are come upon me."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "JOB-30:28",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.28",
        "text": "I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "JOB-30:29",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.29",
        "text": "I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "JOB-30:30",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.30",
        "text": "My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are burned with heat."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "JOB-30:31",
        "verseRef": "Job.30.31",
        "text": "Therefore is my harp [turned] to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep."
      }
    ]
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