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    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 34
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 34,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-34:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.1",
        "text": "Moreover Elihu answered and said,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-34:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.2",
        "text": "Hear my words, ye wise men; And give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-34:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.3",
        "text": "For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-34:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.4",
        "text": "Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is good."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-34:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.5",
        "text": "For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-34:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.6",
        "text": "Notwithstanding my right I am [accounted] a liar; My wound is incurable, [though I am] without transgression."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-34:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.7",
        "text": "What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-34:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.8",
        "text": "Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, And walketh with wicked men?"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-34:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.9",
        "text": "For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-34:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.10",
        "text": "Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, And from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-34:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.11",
        "text": "For the work of a man will he render unto him, And cause every man to find according to his ways."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-34:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.12",
        "text": "Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert justice."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-34:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.13",
        "text": "Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world?"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-34:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.14",
        "text": "If he set his heart upon himself, [If] he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-34:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.15",
        "text": "All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-34:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.16",
        "text": "If now [thou hast] understanding, hear this: Hearken to the voice of my words."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-34:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.17",
        "text": "Shall even one that hateth justice govern? And wilt thou condemn him that is righteous [and] mighty?-"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-34:18",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.18",
        "text": "[Him] that saith to a king, [Thou art] vile, [Or] to nobles, [Ye are] wicked;"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-34:19",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.19",
        "text": "That respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-34:20",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.20",
        "text": "In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-34:21",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.21",
        "text": "For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, And he seeth all his goings."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JOB-34:22",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.22",
        "text": "There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JOB-34:23",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.23",
        "text": "For he needeth not further to consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JOB-34:24",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.24",
        "text": "He breaketh in pieces mighty men [in ways] past finding       out, And setteth others in their stead."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JOB-34:25",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.25",
        "text": "Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "JOB-34:26",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.26",
        "text": "He striketh them as wicked men In the open sight of others;"
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "JOB-34:27",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.27",
        "text": "Because they turned aside from following him, And would not have regard in any of his ways:"
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "JOB-34:28",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.28",
        "text": "So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him, And he heard the cry of the afflicted."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "JOB-34:29",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.29",
        "text": "When he giveth quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? Alike whether [it be done] unto a nation, or unto a man:"
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "JOB-34:30",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.30",
        "text": "That the godless man reign not, That there be none to ensnare the people."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "JOB-34:31",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.31",
        "text": "For hath any said unto God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more]:"
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "JOB-34:32",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.32",
        "text": "That which I see not teach thou me: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?"
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "JOB-34:33",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.33",
        "text": "Shall his recompense be as thou wilt, that thou refusest       it? For thou must choose, and not I: Therefore speak what thou knowest."
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "JOB-34:34",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.34",
        "text": "Men of understanding will say unto me, Yea, every wise man that heareth me:"
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "JOB-34:35",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.35",
        "text": "Job speaketh without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom."
      },{
        "n": 36,
        "refId": "JOB-34:36",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.36",
        "text": "Would that Job were tried unto the end, Because of his answering like wicked men."
      },{
        "n": 37,
        "refId": "JOB-34:37",
        "verseRef": "Job.34.37",
        "text": "For he addeth rebellion unto his sin; He clappeth his hands among us, And multiplieth his words against God."
      }
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