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  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 6
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 6,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-6:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.1",
        "text": "Then Job answered and said,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-6:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.2",
        "text": "Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-6:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.3",
        "text": "For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-6:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.4",
        "text": "For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-6:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.5",
        "text": "Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-6:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.6",
        "text": "Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-6:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.7",
        "text": "My soul refuseth to touch [them]; They are as loathsome food to me."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-6:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.8",
        "text": "Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-6:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.9",
        "text": "Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-6:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.10",
        "text": "And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-6:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.11",
        "text": "What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient?"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-6:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.12",
        "text": "Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-6:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.13",
        "text": "Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-6:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.14",
        "text": "To him that is ready to faint kindness [should be showed]       from his friend; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-6:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.15",
        "text": "My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-6:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.16",
        "text": "Which are black by reason of the ice, [And] wherein the snow hideth itself:"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-6:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.17",
        "text": "What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-6:18",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.18",
        "text": "The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-6:19",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.19",
        "text": "The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-6:20",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.20",
        "text": "They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came thither, and were confounded."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-6:21",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.21",
        "text": "For now ye are nothing; Ye see a terror, and are afraid."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JOB-6:22",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.22",
        "text": "Did I say, Give unto me? Or, Offer a present for me of your substance?"
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JOB-6:23",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.23",
        "text": "Or, Deliver me from the adversary`s hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?"
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JOB-6:24",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.24",
        "text": "Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JOB-6:25",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.25",
        "text": "How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?"
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "JOB-6:26",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.26",
        "text": "Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?"
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "JOB-6:27",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.27",
        "text": "Yea, ye would cast [lots] upon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "JOB-6:28",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.28",
        "text": "Now therefore be pleased to look upon me; For surely I shall not lie to your face."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "JOB-6:29",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.29",
        "text": "Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "JOB-6:30",
        "verseRef": "Job.6.30",
        "text": "Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?"
      }
    ]
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