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    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 7
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 7,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-7:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.1",
        "text": "Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-7:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.2",
        "text": "As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as a hireling that looketh for his wages:"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-7:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.3",
        "text": "So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-7:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.4",
        "text": "When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-7:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.5",
        "text": "My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-7:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.6",
        "text": "My days are swifter than a weaver`s shuttle, And are spent without hope."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-7:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.7",
        "text": "Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-7:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.8",
        "text": "The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-7:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.9",
        "text": "As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-7:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.10",
        "text": "He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-7:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.11",
        "text": "Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-7:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.12",
        "text": "Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-7:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.13",
        "text": "When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-7:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.14",
        "text": "Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions:"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-7:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.15",
        "text": "So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-7:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.16",
        "text": "I loathe [my life]; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-7:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.17",
        "text": "What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-7:18",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.18",
        "text": "And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, And try him every moment?"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-7:19",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.19",
        "text": "How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-7:20",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.20",
        "text": "If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of       men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-7:21",
        "verseRef": "Job.7.21",
        "text": "And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take       away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be."
      }
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