Chapters and verses of the Bible developed separately. Verses are of unclear origin, but seem to be older than the chapter divisions. While they don't always make sense, they tend to divide things fairly easily. Yes, some are long and some are short, but that's how sentences work (and in the Hebrew bible they tend to not be very short like your example, though some are long). Ancient Hebrew literary conventions don't really subdivide into neat English-like sentences always.

Chapters were adopted as a convenient way of referencing verses. They were not adopted because they subdivide it well--Jewish liturgy subdivides chapters (but not verses) differently than the standard. But chapters are still used for convenient reference. And with most of them you can see how someone might divide it at the chapter boundary, even if the paragraphs or Jewish reading breaks are located elsewhere.

Incidentally this is also the case with the halved books, Kings and Samuel. There's no particular logic to the divide except that it's roughly halfway through, and the book was inconveniently long as one.