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  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 5
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 5,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-5:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.1",
        "text": "Call now; is there any that will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-5:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.2",
        "text": "For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-5:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.3",
        "text": "I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-5:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.4",
        "text": "His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-5:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.5",
        "text": "Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-5:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.6",
        "text": "For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-5:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.7",
        "text": "But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-5:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.8",
        "text": "But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause;"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-5:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.9",
        "text": "Who doeth great things and unsearchable, Marvellous things without number:"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-5:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.10",
        "text": "Who giveth rain upon the earth, And sendeth waters upon the fields;"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-5:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.11",
        "text": "So that he setteth up on high those that are low, And those that mourn are exalted to safety."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-5:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.12",
        "text": "He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-5:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.13",
        "text": "He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-5:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.14",
        "text": "They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-5:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.15",
        "text": "But he saveth from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-5:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.16",
        "text": "So the poor hath hope, And iniquity stoppeth her mouth."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-5:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.17",
        "text": "Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-5:18",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.18",
        "text": "For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; He woundeth, and his hands make whole."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-5:19",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.19",
        "text": "He will deliver thee in six troubles; Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-5:20",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.20",
        "text": "In famine he will redeem thee from death; And in war from the power of the sword."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-5:21",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.21",
        "text": "Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JOB-5:22",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.22",
        "text": "At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh; Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JOB-5:23",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.23",
        "text": "For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JOB-5:24",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.24",
        "text": "And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; And thou shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JOB-5:25",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.25",
        "text": "Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, And thine offspring as the grass of the earth."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "JOB-5:26",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.26",
        "text": "Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "JOB-5:27",
        "verseRef": "Job.5.27",
        "text": "Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know thou it for thy good."
      }
    ]
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