{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Job",
 "chapter": 9,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Then Job answered and said,"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?"
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?"
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?"
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?"
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?"
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?"
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good."
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey."
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:"
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent."
  },
  {
   "v": 29,
   "t": "If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?"
  },
  {
   "v": 30,
   "t": "If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;"
  },
  {
   "v": 31,
   "t": "Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me."
  },
  {
   "v": 32,
   "t": "For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment."
  },
  {
   "v": 33,
   "t": "Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both."
  },
  {
   "v": 34,
   "t": "Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:"
  },
  {
   "v": 35,
   "t": "Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me."
  }
 ],
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}