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    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 31
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 31,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-31:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.1",
        "text": "I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-31:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.2",
        "text": "For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-31:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.3",
        "text": "Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-31:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.4",
        "text": "Doth not he see my ways, And number all my steps?"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-31:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.5",
        "text": "If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to deceit"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-31:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.6",
        "text": "(Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity);"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-31:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.7",
        "text": "If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands:"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-31:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.8",
        "text": "Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-31:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.9",
        "text": "If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor`s door;"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-31:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.10",
        "text": "Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-31:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.11",
        "text": "For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-31:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.12",
        "text": "For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-31:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.13",
        "text": "If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my       maid-servant, When they contended with me;"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-31:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.14",
        "text": "What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-31:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.15",
        "text": "Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-31:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.16",
        "text": "If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-31:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.17",
        "text": "Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-31:18",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.18",
        "text": "(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father,  And her have I guided from my mother`s womb);"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-31:19",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.19",
        "text": "If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-31:20",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.20",
        "text": "If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-31:21",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.21",
        "text": "If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:"
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JOB-31:22",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.22",
        "text": "Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JOB-31:23",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.23",
        "text": "For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JOB-31:24",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.24",
        "text": "If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, [Thou art] my confidence;"
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JOB-31:25",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.25",
        "text": "If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much;"
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "JOB-31:26",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.26",
        "text": "If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,"
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "JOB-31:27",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.27",
        "text": "And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand:"
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "JOB-31:28",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.28",
        "text": "This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "JOB-31:29",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.29",
        "text": "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated       me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;"
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "JOB-31:30",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.30",
        "text": "(Yea, I have not suffered by mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);"
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "JOB-31:31",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.31",
        "text": "If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat?"
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "JOB-31:32",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.32",
        "text": "(The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller);"
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "JOB-31:33",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.33",
        "text": "If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,"
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "JOB-31:34",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.34",
        "text": "Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door-"
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "JOB-31:35",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.35",
        "text": "Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And [that I had] the indictment which mine adversary hath       written!"
      },{
        "n": 36,
        "refId": "JOB-31:36",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.36",
        "text": "Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown:"
      },{
        "n": 37,
        "refId": "JOB-31:37",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.37",
        "text": "I would declare unto him the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near unto him."
      },{
        "n": 38,
        "refId": "JOB-31:38",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.38",
        "text": "If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;"
      },{
        "n": 39,
        "refId": "JOB-31:39",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.39",
        "text": "If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:"
      },{
        "n": 40,
        "refId": "JOB-31:40",
        "verseRef": "Job.31.40",
        "text": "Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley.          The words of Job are ended."
      }
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