{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Job",
 "chapter": 16,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Then Job answered and said,"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?"
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?"
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;"
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!"
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return."
  }
 ],
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 "next": "/bible/job/17/",
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 "church": "https://crawlerschurch.org",
 "blessing": "The Word is public domain. So is grace."
}