Bible Reading
August 20
The World English Bible
Aug.
20
Job
17-19
Job
17:1 "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave
is ready for me.
Job
17:2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their
provocation.
Job
17:3 "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself.
Who is there who will strike hands with me?
Job
17:4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore
you shall not exalt them.
Job
17:5 He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his
children shall fail.
Job
17:6 "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in
my face.
Job
17:7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a
shadow.
Job
17:8 Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall
stir up himself against the godless.
Job
17:9 Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands
shall grow stronger and stronger.
Job
17:10 But as for you all, come on now again; I shall not find a wise
man among you.
Job
17:11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts
of my heart.
Job
17:12 They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in
the presence of darkness.
Job
17:13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in
the darkness,
Job
17:14 If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the
worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
Job
17:15 where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Job
17:16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend
together into the dust?"
Job
18:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
Job
18:2 "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and
afterwards we will speak.
Job
18:3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in
your sight?
Job
18:4 You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be
forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
Job
18:5 "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark
of his fire shall not shine.
Job
18:6 The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall
be put out.
Job
18:7 The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel
shall cast him down.
Job
18:8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into
its mesh.
Job
18:9 A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
Job
18:10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the
way.
Job
18:11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase
him at his heels.
Job
18:12 His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his
side.
Job
18:13 The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of
death shall devour his members.
Job
18:14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall
be brought to the king of terrors.
Job
18:15 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his.
Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.
Job
18:16 His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be
cut off.
Job
18:17 His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name
in the street.
Job
18:18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of
the world.
Job
18:19 He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor
any remaining where he sojourned.
Job
18:20 Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those
who went before were frightened.
Job
18:21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the
place of him who doesn't know God."
Job
19:1 Then Job answered,
Job
19:2 "How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
Job
19:3 You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you
attack me.
Job
19:4 If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
Job
19:5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead
against me my reproach;
Job
19:6 know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with
his net.
Job
19:7 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for
help, but there is no justice.
Job
19:8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set
darkness in my paths.
Job
19:9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my
head.
Job
19:10 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he
has plucked up like a tree.
Job
19:11 He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among
his adversaries.
Job
19:12 His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me,
and encamp around my tent.
Job
19:13 "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are
wholly estranged from me.
Job
19:14 My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have
forgotten me.
Job
19:15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a
stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
Job
19:16 I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him
with my mouth.
Job
19:17 My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the
children of my own mother.
Job
19:18 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against
me.
Job
19:19 All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have
turned against me.
Job
19:20 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by
the skin of my teeth.
Job
19:21 "Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for
the hand of God has touched me.
Job
19:22 Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my
flesh?
Job
19:23 "Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were
inscribed in a book!
Job
19:24 That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock
forever!
Job
19:25 But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he
will stand upon the earth.
Job
19:26 After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,
Job
19:27 Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and
not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.
Job
19:28 If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' because the root of
the matter is found in me,
Job
19:29 be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of
the sword, that you may know there is a judgment."
Aug.
20
Romans
1
Rom
1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set
apart for the Good News of God,
Rom
1:2 which he promised before through his prophets in the holy
Scriptures,
Rom
1:3 concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according
to the flesh,
Rom
1:4 who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to
the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus
Christ our Lord,
Rom
1:5 through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of
faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;
Rom
1:6 among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;
Rom
1:7 to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom
1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that
your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
Rom
1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good
News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my
prayers,
Rom
1:10 requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by
the will of God to come to you.
Rom
1:11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual
gift, to the end that you may be established;
Rom
1:12 that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us
by the other's faith, both yours and mine.
Rom
1:13 Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often
planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have
some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.
Rom
1:14 I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise
and to the foolish.
Rom
1:15 So, as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to
you also who are in Rome.
Rom
1:16 For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the
power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew
first, and also for the Greek.
Rom
1:17 For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith.
As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."
Rom
1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in
unrighteousness,
Rom
1:19 because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God
revealed it to them.
Rom
1:20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world
are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made,
even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without
excuse.
Rom
1:21 Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither
gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless
heart was darkened.
Rom
1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Rom
1:23 and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness
of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed
animals, and creeping things.
Rom
1:24 Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to
uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,
Rom
1:25 who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and
served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever.
Amen.
Rom
1:26 For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their
women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
Rom
1:27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the
woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is
inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty
of their error.
Rom
1:28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave
them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not
fitting;
Rom
1:29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality,
wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife,
deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
Rom
1:30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful,
inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Rom
1:31 without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural
affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
Rom
1:32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such
things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of
those who practice them.
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