Bible Reading
August 17
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.
17, 18
Acts
27
Act
27:1 When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they
delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named
Julius, of the Augustan band.
Act
27:2 Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to
places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea; Aristarchus, a Macedonian
of Thessalonica, being with us.
Act
27:3 The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly,
and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.
Act
27:4 Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus,
because the winds were contrary.
Act
27:5 When we had sailed across the sea which is off Cilicia and
Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.
Act
27:6 There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for
Italy, and he put us on board.
Act
27:7 When we had sailed slowly many days, and had come with
difficulty opposite Cnidus, the wind not allowing us further, we
sailed under the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.
Act
27:8 With difficulty sailing along it we came to a certain place
called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.
Act
27:9 When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous,
because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them,
Act
27:10 and said to them, "Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will
be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but
also of our lives."
Act
27:11 But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the
owner of the ship than to those things which were spoken by Paul.
Act
27:12 Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority
advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could reach
Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking
northeast and southeast.
Act
27:13 When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had
obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete,
close to shore.
Act
27:14 But before long, a stormy wind beat down from shore, which is
called Euroclydon.
Act
27:15 When the ship was caught, and couldn't face the wind, we gave
way to it, and were driven along.
Act
27:16 Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we were
able, with difficulty, to secure the boat.
Act
27:17 After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help
reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis
sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along.
Act
27:18 As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they
began to throw things overboard.
Act
27:19 On the third day, they threw out the ship's tackle with their
own hands.
Act
27:20 When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no
small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now
taken away.
Act
27:21 When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the
middle of them, and said, "Sirs, you should have listened to me,
and not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this injury and
loss.
Act
27:22 Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of
life among you, but only of the ship.
Act
27:23 For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the
God whose I am and whom I serve,
Act
27:24 saying, 'Don't be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar.
Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.'
Act
27:25 Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be
just as it has been spoken to me.
Act
27:26 But we must run aground on a certain island."
Act
27:27 But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back
and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised
that they were drawing near to some land.
Act
27:28 They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms. After a little
while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.
Act
27:29 Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go
four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.
Act
27:30 As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had
lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out
anchors from the bow,
Act
27:31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless
these stay in the ship, you can't be saved."
Act
27:32 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it
fall off.
Act
27:33 While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some
food, saying, "This day is the fourteenth day that you wait and
continue fasting, having taken nothing.
Act
27:34 Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your
safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads."
Act
27:35 When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to
God in the presence of all, and he broke it, and began to eat.
Act
27:36 Then they all cheered up, and they also took food.
Act
27:37 In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship.
Act
27:38 When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing
out the wheat into the sea.
Act
27:39 When it was day, they didn't recognize the land, but they
noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive
the ship onto it.
Act
27:40 Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the
same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the
wind, they made for the beach.
Act
27:41 But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel
aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began
to break up by the violence of the waves.
Act
27:42 The soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none
of them would swim out and escape.
Act
27:43 But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from
their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw
themselves overboard first to go toward the land;
Act
27:44 and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other
things from the ship. So it happened that they all escaped safely to
the land.
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