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  "citation": "Job 23 (Douay-Rheims)",
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    {
      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Then Job answered, and said:",
      "citation": "Job 23:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning.",
      "citation": "Job 23:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne?",
      "citation": "Job 23:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "I would set judgment before him, and would fill my mouth with complaints.",
      "citation": "Job 23:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "That I might know the words that he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.",
      "citation": "Job 23:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "I would not that he should contend with me with much strength, nor overwhelm me with the weight of his greatness.",
      "citation": "Job 23:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "Let him propose equity against me, and let my judgment come to victory.",
      "citation": "Job 23:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "But if I go to the east, he appeareth not; if to the west, I shall not understand him.",
      "citation": "Job 23:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "If to the left hand, what shall I do? I shall not take hold on him: if I turn myself to the right hand, I shall not see him.",
      "citation": "Job 23:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire:",
      "citation": "Job 23:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have not declined from it.",
      "citation": "Job 23:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.",
      "citation": "Job 23:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 13,
      "text": "For he is alone, and no man can turn away his thought: and whatsoever his soul hath desired, that hath he done.",
      "citation": "Job 23:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 14,
      "text": "And when he shall have fulfilled his will in me, many other like things are also at hand with him.",
      "citation": "Job 23:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 15,
      "text": "And therefore I am troubled at his presence, and when I consider him, I am made pensive with fear.",
      "citation": "Job 23:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 16,
      "text": "God hath softened my heart, and the Almighty hath troubled me.",
      "citation": "Job 23:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 17,
      "text": "For I have not perished because of the darkness that hangs over me, neither hath the mist covered my face.",
      "citation": "Job 23:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
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