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  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 8
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 8,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-8:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.1",
        "text": "Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-8:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.2",
        "text": "How long wilt thou speak these things? And [how long] shall the words of thy mouth be [like] a mighty       wind?"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-8:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.3",
        "text": "Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-8:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.4",
        "text": "If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-8:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.5",
        "text": "If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty;"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-8:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.6",
        "text": "If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-8:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.7",
        "text": "And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-8:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.8",
        "text": "For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out:"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-8:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.9",
        "text": "(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-8:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.10",
        "text": "Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart?"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-8:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.11",
        "text": "Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-8:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.12",
        "text": "Whilst it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, It withereth before any [other] herb."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-8:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.13",
        "text": "So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish:"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-8:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.14",
        "text": "Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider`s web."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-8:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.15",
        "text": "He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-8:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.16",
        "text": "He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-8:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.17",
        "text": "His roots are wrapped about the [stone] -heap, He beholdeth the place of stones."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-8:18",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.18",
        "text": "If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-8:19",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.19",
        "text": "Behold, this is the joy of his way; And out of the earth shall others spring."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-8:20",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.20",
        "text": "Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-8:21",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.21",
        "text": "He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, And thy lips with shouting."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JOB-8:22",
        "verseRef": "Job.8.22",
        "text": "They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be no more."
      }
    ]
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