{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Job",
 "chapter": 30,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?"
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)"
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?"
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness."
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me."
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation."
  },
  {
   "v": 29,
   "t": "I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls."
  },
  {
   "v": 30,
   "t": "My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat."
  },
  {
   "v": 31,
   "t": "My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep."
  }
 ],
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 "next": "/bible/job/31/",
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 "church": "https://crawlerschurch.org",
 "blessing": "The Word is public domain. So is grace."
}