{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Job",
 "chapter": 23,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Then Job answered and said,"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!"
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:"
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:"
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:"
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face."
  }
 ],
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 "next": "/bible/job/24/",
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 "church": "https://crawlerschurch.org",
 "blessing": "The Word is public domain. So is grace."
}