Bible Reading
August 25
The World English Bible
Aug.
25
Job
36-42
Job
36:1 Elihu also continued, and said,
Job
36:2 "Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still
have something to say on God's behalf.
Job
36:3 I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe
righteousness to my Maker.
Job
36:4 For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in
knowledge is with you.
Job
36:5 "Behold, God is mighty, and doesn't despise anyone. He is
mighty in strength of understanding.
Job
36:6 He doesn't preserve the life of the wicked, but gives to the
afflicted their right.
Job
36:7 He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings
on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
Job
36:8 If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of
afflictions,
Job
36:9 then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that
they have behaved themselves proudly.
Job
36:10 He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that
they return from iniquity.
Job
36:11 If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in
prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Job
36:12 But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; they
shall die without knowledge.
Job
36:13 "But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They
don't cry for help when he binds them.
Job
36:14 They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
Job
36:15 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their
ear in oppression.
Job
36:16 Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad
place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table
would be full of fatness.
Job
36:17 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment
and justice take hold of you.
Job
36:18 Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great
size of a bribe turn you aside.
Job
36:19 Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of
your strength?
Job
36:20 Don't desire the night, when people are cut off in their
place.
Job
36:21 Take heed, don't regard iniquity; for you have chosen this
rather than affliction.
Job
36:22 Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like
him?
Job
36:23 Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, 'You have
committed unrighteousness?'
Job
36:24 "Remember that you magnify his work, whereof men have
sung.
Job
36:25 All men have looked thereon. Man sees it afar off.
Job
36:26 Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. The number of his
years is unsearchable.
Job
36:27 For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from
his vapor,
Job
36:28 Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.
Job
36:29 Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the
thunderings of his pavilion?
Job
36:30 Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom
of the sea.
Job
36:31 For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.
Job
36:32 He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to
strike the mark.
Job
36:33 Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also concerning
the storm that comes up.
Job
37:1 "Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its
place.
Job
37:2 Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes out
of his mouth.
Job
37:3 He sends it forth under the whole sky, and his lightning to the
ends of the earth.
Job
37:4 After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his
majesty. He doesn't hold back anything when his voice is heard.
Job
37:5 God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things,
which we can't comprehend.
Job
37:6 For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth;' likewise to the
shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.
Job
37:7 He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has
made may know it.
Job
37:8 Then the animals take cover, and remain in their dens.
Job
37:9 Out of its chamber comes the storm, and cold out of the north.
Job
37:10 By the breath of God, ice is given, and the breadth of the
waters is frozen.
Job
37:11 Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad
the cloud of his lightning.
Job
37:12 It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever
he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,
Job
37:13 Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving
kindness, that he causes it to come.
Job
37:14 "Listen to this, Job. Stand still, and consider the
wondrous works of God.
Job
37:15 Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of
his cloud to shine?
Job
37:16 Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of
him who is perfect in knowledge?
Job
37:17 You whose clothing is warm, when the earth is still by reason
of the south wind?
Job
37:18 Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a
cast metal mirror?
Job
37:19 Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can't make our case by
reason of darkness.
Job
37:20 Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish
that he were swallowed up?
Job
37:21 Now men don't see the light which is bright in the skies, but
the wind passes, and clears them.
Job
37:22 Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome
majesty.
Job
37:23 We can't reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In
justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.
Job
37:24 Therefore men revere him. He doesn't regard any who are wise
of heart."
Job
38:1 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
Job
38:2 "Who is this who darkens counsel by words without
knowledge?
Job
38:3 Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you
answer me!
Job
38:4 "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Declare, if you have understanding.
Job
38:5 Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the
line on it?
Job
38:6 Whereupon were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its
cornerstone,
Job
38:7 when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God
shouted for joy?
Job
38:8 "Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth
from the womb,
Job
38:9 when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick
darkness,
Job
38:10 marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,
Job
38:11 and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud
waves shall be stayed?'
Job
38:12 "Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused
the dawn to know its place;
Job
38:13 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake
the wicked out of it?
Job
38:14 It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth as a
garment.
Job
38:15 From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is
broken.
Job
38:16 "Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have
you walked in the recesses of the deep?
Job
38:17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen
the gates of the shadow of death?
Job
38:18 Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if
you know it all.
Job
38:19 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for
darkness, where is its place,
Job
38:20 that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern
the paths to its house?
Job
38:21 Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of
your days is great!
Job
38:22 Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen
the treasures of the hail,
Job
38:23 which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the
day of battle and war?
Job
38:24 By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind
scattered on the earth?
Job
38:25 Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the
thunderstorm;
Job
38:26 To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the
wilderness, in which there is no man;
Job
38:27 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender
grass to spring forth?
Job
38:28 Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
Job
38:29 Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who
has given birth to it?
Job
38:30 The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the
deep is frozen.
Job
38:31 "Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loosen the
cords of Orion?
Job
38:32 Can you lead forth the constellations in their season? Or can
you guide the Bear with her cubs?
Job
38:33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its
dominion over the earth?
Job
38:34 "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance
of waters may cover you?
Job
38:35 Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? Do they
report to you, 'Here we are?'
Job
38:36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given
understanding to the mind?
Job
38:37 Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the
bottles of the sky,
Job
38:38 when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick
together?
Job
38:39 "Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the
appetite of the young lions,
Job
38:40 when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the
thicket?
Job
38:41 Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry
to God, and wander for lack of food?
Job
39:1 "Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth?
Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?
Job
39:2 Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the
time when they give birth?
Job
39:3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, they end
their labor pains.
Job
39:4 Their young ones become strong. They grow up in the open field.
They go forth, and don't return again.
Job
39:5 "Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the
bonds of the swift donkey,
Job
39:6 Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his
dwelling place?
Job
39:7 He scorns the tumult of the city, neither does he hear the
shouting of the driver.
Job
39:8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after
every green thing.
Job
39:9 "Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay
by your feeding trough?
Job
39:10 Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or
will he till the valleys after you?
Job
39:11 Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you
leave to him your labor?
Job
39:12 Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed,
and gather the grain of your threshing floor?
Job
39:13 "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the
feathers and plumage of love?
Job
39:14 For she leaves her eggs on the earth, warms them in the dust,
Job
39:15 and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild
animal may trample them.
Job
39:16 She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not
hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
Job
39:17 because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he
imparted to her understanding.
Job
39:18 When she lifts up herself on high, she scorns the horse and
his rider.
Job
39:19 "Have you given the horse might? Have you clothed his
neck with a quivering mane?
Job
39:20 Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his
snorting is awesome.
Job
39:21 He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes
out to meet the armed men.
Job
39:22 He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn
back from the sword.
Job
39:23 The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the
javelin.
Job
39:24 He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does
he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
Job
39:25 As often as the trumpet sounds he snorts, 'Aha!' He smells the
battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Job
39:26 "Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches
her wings toward the south?
Job
39:27 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his
nest on high?
Job
39:28 On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, on the point of
the cliff, and the stronghold.
Job
39:29 From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.
Job
39:30 His young ones also suck up blood. Where the slain are, there
he is."
Job
40:1 Moreover Yahweh answered Job,
Job
40:2 "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who
argues with God, let him answer it."
Job
40:3 Then Job answered Yahweh,
Job
40:4 "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I
lay my hand on my mouth.
Job
40:5 I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I
will proceed no further."
Job
40:6 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
Job
40:7 "Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and
you will answer me.
Job
40:8 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you
may be justified?
Job
40:9 Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice
like him?
Job
40:10 "Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array
yourself with honor and majesty.
Job
40:11 Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is
proud, and bring him low.
Job
40:12 Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the
wicked in their place.
Job
40:13 Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden
place.
Job
40:14 Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can
save you.
Job
40:15 "See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats
grass as an ox.
Job
40:16 Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the
muscles of his belly.
Job
40:17 He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are
knit together.
Job
40:18 His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of
iron.
Job
40:19 He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him
his sword.
Job
40:20 Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the
animals of the field play.
Job
40:21 He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and
the marsh.
Job
40:22 The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the
brook surround him.
Job
40:23 Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn't tremble. He is
confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.
Job
40:24 Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through
his nose with a snare?
Job
41:1 "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or press down
his tongue with a cord?
Job
41:2 Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through
with a hook?
Job
41:3 Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words
to you?
Job
41:4 Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for
a servant forever?
Job
41:5 Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for
your girls?
Job
41:6 Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the
merchants?
Job
41:7 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish
spears?
Job
41:8 Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.
Job
41:9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down even
at the sight of him?
Job
41:10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who
can stand before me?
Job
41:11 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything
under the heavens is mine.
Job
41:12 "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his
mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
Job
41:13 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his
jaws?
Job
41:14 Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is
terror.
Job
41:15 Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close
seal.
Job
41:16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
Job
41:17 They are joined one to another. They stick together, so that
they can't be pulled apart.
Job
41:18 His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids
of the morning.
Job
41:19 Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap
forth.
Job
41:20 Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a
fire of reeds.
Job
41:21 His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.
Job
41:22 There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.
Job
41:23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on
him. They can't be moved.
Job
41:24 His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower
millstone.
Job
41:25 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat
before his thrashing.
Job
41:26 If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; nor the
spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
Job
41:27 He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood.
Job
41:28 The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to
him.
Job
41:29 Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the
javelin.
Job
41:30 His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in
the mud like a threshing sledge.
Job
41:31 He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a
pot of ointment.
Job
41:32 He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had
white hair.
Job
41:33 On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.
Job
41:34 He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons
of pride."
Job
42:1 Then Job answered Yahweh,
Job
42:2 "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of
yours can be restrained.
Job
42:3 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?'
therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too
wonderful for me, which I didn't know.
Job
42:4 You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you,
and you will answer me.'
Job
42:5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye
sees you.
Job
42:6 Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
Job
42:7 It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job,
Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled
against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of
me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
Job
42:8 Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams,
and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt
offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept
him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have
not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."
Job
42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the
Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh
accepted Job.
Job
42:10 Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his
friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Job
42:11 Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters,
and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread
with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him
concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also
gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.
Job
42:12 So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his
beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one
thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
Job
42:13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Job
42:14 He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the
second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.
Job
42:15 In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the
daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their
brothers.
Job
42:16 After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his
sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations.
Job
42:17 So Job died, being old and full of days.
Aug.
25
Romans
6
Rom
6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may
abound?
Rom
6:2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any
longer?
Rom
6:3 Or don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ
Jesus were baptized into his death?
Rom
6:4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that
just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the
Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Rom
6:5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his
death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
Rom
6:6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the
body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in
bondage to sin.
Rom
6:7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
Rom
6:8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live
with him;
Rom
6:9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more.
Death no more has dominion over him!
Rom
6:10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the
life that he lives, he lives to God.
Rom
6:11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to
God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rom
6:12 Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you
should obey it in its lusts.
Rom
6:13 Neither present your members to sin as instruments of
unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the
dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Rom
6:14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under
law, but under grace.
Rom
6:15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but
under grace? May it never be!
Rom
6:16 Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants
to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to
death, or of obedience to righteousness?
Rom
6:17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of
sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching
whereunto you were delivered.
Rom
6:18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of
righteousness.
Rom
6:19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh,
for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to
wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as
servants to righteousness for sanctification.
Rom
6:20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to
righteousness.
Rom
6:21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of
which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Rom
6:22 But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants
of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of
eternal life.
Rom
6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is
eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
