From Gary.... Bible Reading August 18

Bible Reading 

August 18

The World English Bible

 

Aug. 17

Job 5-8

Job 5:1 "Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

Job 5:2 For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

Job 5:3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

Job 5:4 His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

Job 5:5 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

Job 5:6 For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

Job 5:7 but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Job 5:8 "But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

Job 5:9 who does great things that can't be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

Job 5:10 who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

Job 5:11 so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

Job 5:12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.

Job 5:13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

Job 5:14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

Job 5:15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

Job 5:16 So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

Job 5:17 "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

Job 5:18 For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole.

Job 5:19 He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you.

Job 5:20 In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

Job 5:21 You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

Job 5:22 At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

Job 5:23 For you shall be in league with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.

Job 5:24 You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.

Job 5:25 You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.

Job 5:26 You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

Job 5:27 Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good."

Job 6:1 Then Job answered,

Job 6:2 "Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

Job 6:3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.

Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

Job 6:5 Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

Job 6:6 Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Job 6:7 My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.

Job 6:8 "Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,

Job 6:9 even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Job 6:10 Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Job 6:11 What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

Job 6:12 Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?

Job 6:13 Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

Job 6:14 "To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Job 6:15 My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

Job 6:16 Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.

Job 6:17 In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

Job 6:18 The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

Job 6:19 The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.

Job 6:20 They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.

Job 6:21 For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

Job 6:22 Did I say, 'Give to me?' or, 'Offer a present for me from your substance?'

Job 6:23 or, 'Deliver me from the adversary's hand?' or, 'Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?'

Job 6:24 "Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

Job 6:25 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

Job 6:26 Do you intend to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

Job 6:27 Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

Job 6:28 Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I shall not lie to your face.

Job 6:29 Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.

Job 6:30 Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?

Job 7:1 "Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?

Job 7:2 As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,

Job 7:3 so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

Job 7:4 When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

Job 7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

Job 7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Job 7:7 Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

Job 7:8 The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.

Job 7:9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

Job 7:10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

Job 7:11 "Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 7:12 Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

Job 7:13 When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;'

Job 7:14 then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:

Job 7:15 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

Job 7:16 I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Job 7:17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

Job 7:18 that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

Job 7:19 How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

Job 7:20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

Job 7:21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

Job 8:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Job 8:2 "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

Job 8:3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

Job 8:4 If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

Job 8:5 If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

Job 8:6 If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

Job 8:7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

Job 8:8 "Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.

Job 8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

Job 8:10 Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

Job 8:11 "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?

Job 8:12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

Job 8:13 So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,

Job 8:14 Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.

Job 8:15 He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

Job 8:16 He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden.

Job 8:17 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.

Job 8:18 If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'

Job 8:19 Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring.

Job 8:20 "Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.

Job 8:21 He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.

Job 8:22 Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."

Aug. 18

Job 9-12

Job 9:1 Then Job answered,

Job 9:2 "Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

Job 9:3 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.

Job 9:4 God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

Job 9:5 He removes the mountains, and they don't know it, when he overturns them in his anger.

Job 9:6 He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

Job 9:7 He commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, and seals up the stars.

Job 9:8 He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

Job 9:9 He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

Job 9:10 He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number.

Job 9:11 Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.

Job 9:12 Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'

Job 9:13 "God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

Job 9:14 How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

Job 9:15 Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn't answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

Job 9:16 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn't believe that he listened to my voice.

Job 9:17 For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

Job 9:18 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

Job 9:19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'

Job 9:20 Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

Job 9:21 I am blameless. I don't regard myself. I despise my life.

Job 9:22 "It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

Job 9:23 If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

Job 9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

Job 9:25 "Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,

Job 9:26 They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

Job 9:27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

Job 9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

Job 9:29 I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

Job 9:30 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

Job 9:31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

Job 9:32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

Job 9:33 There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

Job 9:34 Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;

Job 9:35 then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.

Job 10:1 "My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 10:2 I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

Job 10:3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

Job 10:4 Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

Job 10:5 Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years,

Job 10:6 that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

Job 10:7 Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

Job 10:8 " 'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

Job 10:9 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

Job 10:10 Haven't you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

Job 10:11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

Job 10:12 You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

Job 10:13 Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:

Job 10:14 if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

Job 10:15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

Job 10:16 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

Job 10:17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

Job 10:18 " 'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

Job 10:19 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 10:20 Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

Job 10:21 before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

Job 10:22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.' "

Job 11:1 Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,

Job 11:2 "Shouldn't the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

Job 11:3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

Job 11:4 For you say, 'My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.'

Job 11:5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

Job 11:6 that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

Job 11:7 "Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

Job 11:8 They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

Job 11:9 Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

Job 11:10 If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

Job 11:11 For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn't consider it.

Job 11:12 An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.

Job 11:13 "If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

Job 11:14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don't let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

Job 11:15 Surely then you shall lift up your face without spot; Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:

Job 11:16 for you shall forget your misery. You shall remember it as waters that are passed away.

Job 11:17 Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.

Job 11:18 You shall be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you shall search, and shall take your rest in safety.

Job 11:19 Also you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. Yes, many shall court your favor.

Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."

Job 12:1 Then Job answered,

Job 12:2 "No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

Job 12:3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

Job 12:4 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

Job 12:5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

Job 12:6 The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.

Job 12:7 "But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

Job 12:8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.

Job 12:9 Who doesn't know that in all these, the hand of Yahweh has done this,

Job 12:10 in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

Job 12:11 Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

Job 12:12 With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

Job 12:13 "With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

Job 12:14 Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

Job 12:15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

Job 12:16 With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.

Job 12:17 He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

Job 12:18 He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

Job 12:19 He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

Job 12:20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

Job 12:21 He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

Job 12:22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

Job 12:23 He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

Job 12:24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

Job 12:25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.