{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Job",
 "chapter": 17,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?"
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?"
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?"
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust."
  }
 ],
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}