Bible Reading
August 22, 23
The World English Bible
Aug.
22
Job
24-26
Job
24:1 "Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those
who know him see his days?
Job
24:2 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take
away flocks, and feed them.
Job
24:3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the
widow's ox for a pledge.
Job
24:4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all
hide themselves.
Job
24:5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their
work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread
for their children.
Job
24:6 They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard
of the wicked.
Job
24:7 They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering
in the cold.
Job
24:8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the
rock for lack of a shelter.
Job
24:9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and
take a pledge of the poor,
Job
24:10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry,
they carry the sheaves.
Job
24:11 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine
presses, and suffer thirst.
Job
24:12 From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the
wounded cries out, yet God doesn't regard the folly.
Job
24:13 "These are of those who rebel against the light. They
don't know its ways, nor abide in its paths.
Job
24:14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and
needy. In the night he is like a thief.
Job
24:15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying,
'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.
Job
24:16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up
in the daytime. They don't know the light.
Job
24:17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for
they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
Job
24:18 "They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their
portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the
vineyards.
Job
24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those
who have sinned.
Job
24:20 The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him.
He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a
tree.
Job
24:21 He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness to
the widow.
Job
24:22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has
no assurance of life.
Job
24:23 God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on
their ways.
Job
24:24 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes,
they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others,
and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
Job
24:25 If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my
speech worth nothing?"
Job
25:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
Job
25:2 "Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his
high places.
Job
25:3 Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?
Job
25:4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of
a woman be clean?
Job
25:5 Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not
pure in his sight;
Job
25:6 How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a
worm!"
Job
26:1 Then Job answered,
Job
26:2 "How have you helped him who is without power! How have
you saved the arm that has no strength!
Job
26:3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully
declared sound knowledge!
Job
26:4 To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from
you?
Job
26:5 "Those who are deceased tremble, those beneath the waters
and all that live in them.
Job
26:6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
Job
26:7 He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the
earth on nothing.
Job
26:8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is
not burst under them.
Job
26:9 He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on
it.
Job
26:10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and
to the confines of light and darkness.
Job
26:11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his
rebuke.
Job
26:12 He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding
he strikes through Rahab.
Job
26:13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced
the swift serpent.
Job
26:14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a
whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can
understand?"
Aug.
23
Job
27-29
Job
27:1 Job again took up his parable, and said,
Job
27:2 "As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty,
who has made my soul bitter.
Job
27:3 (For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of
God is in my nostrils);
Job
27:4 surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall
my tongue utter deceit.
Job
27:5 Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will
not put away my integrity from me.
Job
27:6 I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My
heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Job
27:7 "Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up
against me be as the unrighteous.
Job
27:8 For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when
God takes away his life?
Job
27:9 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
Job
27:10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at
all times?
Job
27:11 I will teach you about the hand of God. That which is with the
Almighty will I not conceal.
Job
27:12 Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you
become altogether vain?
Job
27:13 "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the
heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
Job
27:14 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His
offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Job
27:15 Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows
shall make no lamentation.
Job
27:16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as
the clay;
Job
27:17 he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the
innocent shall divide the silver.
Job
27:18 He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman
makes.
Job
27:19 He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his
eyes, and he is not.
Job
27:20 Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in
the night.
Job
27:21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him
out of his place.
Job
27:22 For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from
his hand.
Job
27:23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of
his place.
Job
28:1 "Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold
which they refine.
Job
28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of
the ore.
Job
28:3 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest
bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
Job
28:4 He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are
forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and
forth.
Job
28:5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is
turned up as it were by fire.
Job
28:6 Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.
Job
28:7 That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon's eye
seen it.
Job
28:8 The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion
passed by there.
Job
28:9 He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the
mountains by the roots.
Job
28:10 He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every
precious thing.
Job
28:11 He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing that
is hidden he brings forth to light.
Job
28:12 "But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of
understanding?
Job
28:13 Man doesn't know its price; Neither is it found in the land of
the living.
Job
28:14 The deep says, 'It isn't in me.' The sea says, 'It isn't with
me.'
Job
28:15 It can't be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed
for its price.
Job
28:16 It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious
onyx, or the sapphire.
Job
28:17 Gold and glass can't equal it, neither shall it be exchanged
for jewels of fine gold.
Job
28:18 No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yes, the
price of wisdom is above rubies.
Job
28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be
valued with pure gold.
Job
28:20 Whence then comes wisdom? Where is the place of understanding?
Job
28:21 Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept
close from the birds of the sky.
Job
28:22 Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with
our ears.'
Job
28:23 "God understands its way, and he knows its place.
Job
28:24 For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the
whole sky.
Job
28:25 He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the
waters by measure.
Job
28:26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the
lightning of the thunder;
Job
28:27 then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and
searched it out.
Job
28:28 To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom.
To depart from evil is understanding.' "
Job
29:1 Job again took up his parable, and said,
Job
29:2 "Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days
when God watched over me;
Job
29:3 when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked
through darkness,
Job
29:4 as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God
was in my tent,
Job
29:5 when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around
me,
Job
29:6 when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out
streams of oil for me,
Job
29:7 when I went forth to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in
the street.
Job
29:8 The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and
stood.
Job
29:9 The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on
their mouth.
Job
29:10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to
the roof of their mouth.
Job
29:11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the
eye saw me, it commended me:
Job
29:12 Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless
also, who had none to help him,
Job
29:13 the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I
caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Job
29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a
robe and a diadem.
Job
29:15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
Job
29:16 I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't
know, I searched out.
Job
29:17 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out
of his teeth.
Job
29:18 Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my
days as the sand.
Job
29:19 My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on
my branch.
Job
29:20 My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.'
Job
29:21 "Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my
counsel.
Job
29:22 After my words they didn't speak again. My speech fell on
them.
Job
29:23 They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with
the spring rain.
Job
29:24 I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't
reject the light of my face.
Job
29:25 I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in
the army, as one who comforts the mourners.
Aug.
22
Romans
3
Rom
3:1 Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of
circumcision?
Rom
3:2 Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted
with the oracles of God.
Rom
3:3 For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith
nullify the faithfulness of God?
Rom
3:4 May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a
liar. As it is written, "That you might be justified in your
words, and might prevail when you come into judgment."
Rom
3:5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God,
what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like
men do.
Rom
3:6 May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
Rom
3:7 For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory,
why am I also still judged as a sinner?
Rom
3:8 Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm
that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those
who say so are justly condemned.
Rom
3:9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we
previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
Rom
3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.
Rom
3:11 There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks
after God.
Rom
3:12 They have all turned aside. They have together become
unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as
one."
Rom
3:13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they
have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their
lips;"
Rom
3:14 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."
Rom
3:15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood.
Rom
3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways.
Rom
3:17 The way of peace, they haven't known."
Rom
3:18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
Rom
3:19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to
those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all
the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
Rom
3:20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in
his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Rom
3:21 But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been
revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
Rom
3:22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to
all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
Rom
3:23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
Rom
3:24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that
is in Christ Jesus;
Rom
3:25 whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in
his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the
passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance;
Rom
3:26 to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he
might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in
Jesus.
Rom
3:27 Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what manner of
law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
Rom
3:28 We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart
from the works of the law.
Rom
3:29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles
also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
Rom
3:30 since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised
by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
Rom
3:31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No,
we establish the law.
Aug.
23
Romans
4
Rom
4:1 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found
according to the flesh?
Rom
4:2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast
about, but not toward God.
Rom
4:3 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and
it was accounted to him for righteousness."
Rom
4:4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as
debt.
Rom
4:5 But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies
the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
Rom
4:6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God
counts righteousness apart from works,
Rom
4:7 "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins
are covered.
Rom
4:8 Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with
sin.
Rom
4:9 Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the
uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham
for righteousness.
Rom
4:10 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in
uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
Rom
4:11 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the
righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in
uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe,
though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be
accounted to them.
Rom
4:12 The father of circumcision to those who not only are of the
circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our
father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
Rom
4:13 For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be
heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the
righteousness of faith.
Rom
4:14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void,
and the promise is made of no effect.
Rom
4:15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is
there disobedience.
Rom
4:16 For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to
grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not
to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the
faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
Rom
4:17 As it is written, "I have made you a father of many
nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God,
who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as
though they were.
Rom
4:18 Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might
become a father of many nations, according to that which had been
spoken, "So will your seed be."
Rom
4:19 Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own
body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years
old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.
Rom
4:20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through
unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
Rom
4:21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able
also to perform.
Rom
4:22 Therefore it also was "reckoned to him for righteousness."
Rom
4:23 Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his
sake alone,
Rom
4:24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who
believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,
Rom
4:25 who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our
justification.
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