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  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 40
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 40,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-40:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.1",
        "text": "Moreover Jehovah answered Job, and said,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-40:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.2",
        "text": "Shall he that cavilleth contend with the Almighty? He that argueth with God, let him answer it."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-40:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.3",
        "text": "Then Job answered Jehovah, and said,"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-40:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.4",
        "text": "Behold, I am of small account; What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-40:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.5",
        "text": "Once have I spoken, and I will not answer; Yea, twice, but I will proceed no further."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-40:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.6",
        "text": "Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-40:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.7",
        "text": "Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-40:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.8",
        "text": "Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-40:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.9",
        "text": "Or hast thou an arm like God? And canst thou thunder with a voice like him?"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-40:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.10",
        "text": "Deck thyself now with excellency and dignity; And array thyself with honor and majesty."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-40:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.11",
        "text": "Pour forth the overflowings of thine anger; And look upon every one that is proud, and abase him."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-40:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.12",
        "text": "Look on every one that is proud, [and] bring him low; And tread down the wicked where they stand."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-40:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.13",
        "text": "Hide them in the dust together; Bind their faces in the hidden [place]."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-40:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.14",
        "text": "Then will I also confess of thee That thine own right hand can save thee."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-40:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.15",
        "text": "Behold now, behemoth, which I made as well as thee; He eateth grass as an ox."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-40:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.16",
        "text": "Lo now, his strength is in his loins, And his force is in the muscles of his belly."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-40:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.17",
        "text": "He moveth his tail like a cedar: The sinews of his thighs are knit together."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-40:18",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.18",
        "text": "His bones are [as] tubes of brass; His limbs are like bars of iron."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-40:19",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.19",
        "text": "He is the chief of the ways of God: He [only] that made him giveth him his sword."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-40:20",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.20",
        "text": "Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the beasts of the field do play."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-40:21",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.21",
        "text": "He lieth under the lotus-trees, In the covert of the reed, and the fen."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JOB-40:22",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.22",
        "text": "The lotus-trees cover him with their shade; The willows of the brook compass him about."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JOB-40:23",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.23",
        "text": "Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; He is confident, though a Jordan swell even to his mouth."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JOB-40:24",
        "verseRef": "Job.40.24",
        "text": "Shall any take him when he is on the watch, Or pierce through his nose with a snare?"
      }
    ]
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