OLD TESTAMENT

Job 38:37

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37

Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,

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Verse 37. Sleep. The ancients have celebrated this harmony. Cic. Somn. Scip.—Septuagint “Who numbereth the clouds in wisdom, or hath bent the sky down to the earth?” Prot. “or who can stay the bottles of heaven?” Bible.—Canst thou cause it to rain, or to be fair? ( Calmet.) or make the celestial bodies ( Bible.) rest from motion? Worthington.

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