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  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 9
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 9,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-9:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.1",
        "text": "Then Job answered and said,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-9:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.2",
        "text": "Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-9:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.3",
        "text": "If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-9:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.4",
        "text": "[He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who hath hardened himself against him, and prospered?-"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-9:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.5",
        "text": "[Him] that removeth the mountains, and they know it not, When he overturneth them in his anger;"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-9:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.6",
        "text": "That shaketh the earth out of its place, And the pillars thereof tremble;"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-9:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.7",
        "text": "That commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, And sealeth up the stars;"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-9:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.8",
        "text": "That alone stretcheth out the heavens, And treadeth upon the waves of the sea;"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-9:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.9",
        "text": "That maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south;"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-9:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.10",
        "text": "That doeth great things past finding out, Yea, marvellous things without number."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-9:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.11",
        "text": "Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: He passeth on also, but I perceive him not."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-9:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.12",
        "text": "Behold, he seizeth [the prey], who can hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-9:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.13",
        "text": "God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab do stoop under him."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-9:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.14",
        "text": "How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words [to reason] with him?"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-9:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.15",
        "text": "Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-9:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.16",
        "text": "If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-9:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.17",
        "text": "For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-9:18",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.18",
        "text": "He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-9:19",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.19",
        "text": "If [we speak] of strength, lo, [he is] mighty! And if of justice, Who, [saith he], will summon me?"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-9:20",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.20",
        "text": "Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-9:21",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.21",
        "text": "I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JOB-9:22",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.22",
        "text": "It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JOB-9:23",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.23",
        "text": "If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JOB-9:24",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.24",
        "text": "The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covereth the faces of the judges thereof: If [it be] not [he], who then is it?"
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JOB-9:25",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.25",
        "text": "Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good,"
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "JOB-9:26",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.26",
        "text": "They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "JOB-9:27",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.27",
        "text": "If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer;"
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "JOB-9:28",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.28",
        "text": "I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "JOB-9:29",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.29",
        "text": "I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?"
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "JOB-9:30",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.30",
        "text": "If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;"
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "JOB-9:31",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.31",
        "text": "Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me."
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "JOB-9:32",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.32",
        "text": "For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "JOB-9:33",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.33",
        "text": "There is no umpire betwixt us, That might lay his hand upon us both."
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "JOB-9:34",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.34",
        "text": "Let him take his rod away from me, And let not his terror make me afraid:"
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "JOB-9:35",
        "verseRef": "Job.9.35",
        "text": "Then would I speak, and not fear him; For I am not so in myself."
      }
    ]
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