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    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 38
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 38,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-38:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.1",
        "text": "Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-38:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.2",
        "text": "Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge?"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-38:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.3",
        "text": "Gird up now thy loins like a man; For I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-38:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.4",
        "text": "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-38:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.5",
        "text": "Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-38:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.6",
        "text": "Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof,"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-38:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.7",
        "text": "When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-38:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.8",
        "text": "Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb;"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-38:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.9",
        "text": "When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-38:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.10",
        "text": "And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-38:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.11",
        "text": "And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-38:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.12",
        "text": "Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days [began], [And] caused the dayspring to know its place;"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-38:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.13",
        "text": "That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it?"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-38:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.14",
        "text": "It is changed as clay under the seal; And [all things] stand forth as a garment:"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-38:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.15",
        "text": "And from the wicked their light is withholden, And the high arm is broken."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-38:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.16",
        "text": "Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-38:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.17",
        "text": "Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-38:18",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.18",
        "text": "Hast thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou knowest it all."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-38:19",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.19",
        "text": "Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof,"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-38:20",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.20",
        "text": "That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, And that thou shouldest discern the paths to the house thereof?"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-38:21",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.21",
        "text": "[Doubtless], thou knowest, for thou wast then born, And the number of thy days is great!"
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JOB-38:22",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.22",
        "text": "Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow, Or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,"
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JOB-38:23",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.23",
        "text": "Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, Against the day of battle and war?"
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JOB-38:24",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.24",
        "text": "By what way is the light parted, Or the east wind scattered upon the earth?"
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JOB-38:25",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.25",
        "text": "Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, Or the way for the lightning of the thunder;"
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "JOB-38:26",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.26",
        "text": "To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man;"
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "JOB-38:27",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.27",
        "text": "To satisfy the waste and desolate [ground], And to cause the tender grass to spring forth?"
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "JOB-38:28",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.28",
        "text": "Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?"
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "JOB-38:29",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.29",
        "text": "Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?"
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "JOB-38:30",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.30",
        "text": "The waters hide themselves [and become] like stone, And the face of the deep is frozen."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "JOB-38:31",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.31",
        "text": "Canst thou bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion?"
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "JOB-38:32",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.32",
        "text": "Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or canst thou guide the Bear with her train?"
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "JOB-38:33",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.33",
        "text": "Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? Canst thou establish the dominion thereof in the earth?"
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "JOB-38:34",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.34",
        "text": "Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee?"
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "JOB-38:35",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.35",
        "text": "Canst thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?"
      },{
        "n": 36,
        "refId": "JOB-38:36",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.36",
        "text": "Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who hath given understanding to the mind?"
      },{
        "n": 37,
        "refId": "JOB-38:37",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.37",
        "text": "Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,"
      },{
        "n": 38,
        "refId": "JOB-38:38",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.38",
        "text": "When the dust runneth into a mass, And the clods cleave fast together?"
      },{
        "n": 39,
        "refId": "JOB-38:39",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.39",
        "text": "Canst thou hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,"
      },{
        "n": 40,
        "refId": "JOB-38:40",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.40",
        "text": "When they couch in their dens, [And] abide in the covert to lie in wait?"
      },{
        "n": 41,
        "refId": "JOB-38:41",
        "verseRef": "Job.38.41",
        "text": "Who provideth for the raven his prey, When his young ones cry unto God, [And] wander for lack of food?"
      }
    ]
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