Bible Reading for August 24 and 25
World English Bible
Aug.
24
Job
30-35
Job
30:1 "But now those who are younger than I have me in derision,
whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
Job
30:2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom
ripe age has perished?
Job
30:3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground,
in the gloom of waste and desolation.
Job
30:4 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are
their food.
Job
30:5 They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them
as after a thief;
Job
30:6 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the
earth and of the rocks.
Job
30:7 Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they are
gathered together.
Job
30:8 They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They
were flogged out of the land.
Job
30:9 "Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
Job
30:10 They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don't hesitate to
spit in my face.
Job
30:11 For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have
thrown off restraint before me.
Job
30:12 On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet,
They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
Job
30:13 They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without
anyone's help.
Job
30:14 As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin
they roll themselves in.
Job
30:15 Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My
welfare has passed away as a cloud.
Job
30:16 "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction
have taken hold on me.
Job
30:17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains
that gnaw me take no rest.
Job
30:18 By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as
the collar of my coat.
Job
30:19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and
ashes.
Job
30:20 I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you
gaze at me.
Job
30:21 You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand
you persecute me.
Job
30:22 You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve
me in the storm.
Job
30:23 For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house
appointed for all living.
Job
30:24 "However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or
in his calamity therefore cry for help?
Job
30:25 Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul
grieved for the needy?
Job
30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for
light, there came darkness.
Job
30:27 My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction
have come on me.
Job
30:28 I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and
cry for help.
Job
30:29 I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
Job
30:30 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned
with heat.
Job
30:31 Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the
voice of those who weep.
Job
31:1 "I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look
lustfully at a young woman?
Job
31:2 For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from
the Almighty on high?
Job
31:3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the
workers of iniquity?
Job
31:4 Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps?
Job
31:5 "If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried
to deceit
Job
31:6 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my
integrity);
Job
31:7 if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after
my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,
Job
31:8 then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of
my field be rooted out.
Job
31:9 "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid
wait at my neighbor's door,
Job
31:10 then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with
her.
Job
31:11 For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an
iniquity to be punished by the judges:
Job
31:12 For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root
out all my increase.
Job
31:13 "If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my
female servant, when they contended with me;
Job
31:14 What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what
shall I answer him?
Job
31:15 Didn't he who made me in the womb make him? Didn't one fashion
us in the womb?
Job
31:16 "If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have
caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
Job
31:17 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not
eaten of it
Job
31:18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her
have I guided from my mother's womb);
Job
31:19 if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the
needy had no covering;
Job
31:20 if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with
my sheep's fleece;
Job
31:21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I
saw my help in the gate,
Job
31:22 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm
be broken from the bone.
Job
31:23 For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty,
I can do nothing.
Job
31:24 "If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine
gold, 'You are my confidence;'
Job
31:25 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my
hand had gotten much;
Job
31:26 if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in
splendor,
Job
31:27 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a
kiss from my mouth,
Job
31:28 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;
for I should have denied the God who is above.
Job
31:29 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated
me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;
Job
31:30 (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life
with a curse);
Job
31:31 if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has
not been filled with his meat?'
Job
31:32 (the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened
my doors to the traveler);
Job
31:33 if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my
iniquity in my heart,
Job
31:34 because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of
families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn't go out of
the door--
Job
31:35 oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature,
let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!
Job
31:36 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to
me as a crown.
Job
31:37 I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince
would I go near to him.
Job
31:38 If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep
together;
Job
31:39 if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its
owners to lose their life,
Job
31:40 let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of
barley." The words of Job are ended.
Job
32:1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was
righteous in his own eyes.
Job
32:2 Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the
family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because
he justified himself rather than God.
Job
32:3 Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because
they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Job
32:4 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder
than he.
Job
32:5 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these
three men, his wrath was kindled.
Job
32:6 Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am
young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn't dare
show you my opinion.
Job
32:7 I said, 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach
wisdom.'
Job
32:8 But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty
gives them understanding.
Job
32:9 It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand
justice.
Job
32:10 Therefore I said, 'Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.'
Job
32:11 "Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your
reasoning, while you searched out what to say.
Job
32:12 Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who
convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.
Job
32:13 Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom, God may refute
him, not man;'
Job
32:14 for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I
answer him with your speeches.
Job
32:15 "They are amazed. They answer no more. They don't have a
word to say.
Job
32:16 Shall I wait, because they don't speak, because they stand
still, and answer no more?
Job
32:17 I also will answer my part, and I also will show my opinion.
Job
32:18 For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.
Job
32:19 Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new
wineskins it is ready to burst.
Job
32:20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and
answer.
Job
32:21 Please don't let me respect any man's person, neither will I
give flattering titles to any man.
Job
32:22 For I don't know how to give flattering titles; or else my
Maker would soon take me away.
Job
33:1 "However, Job, Please hear my speech, and listen to all my
words.
Job
33:2 See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my
mouth.
Job
33:3 My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my
lips know they shall speak sincerely.
Job
33:4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty
gives me life.
Job
33:5 If you can, answer me. Set your words in order before me, and
stand forth.
Job
33:6 Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out
of the clay.
Job
33:7 Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, neither shall my
pressure be heavy on you.
Job
33:8 "Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the
voice of your words, saying,
Job
33:9 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is
there iniquity in me.
Job
33:10 Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his
enemy.
Job
33:11 He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.'
Job
33:12 "Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for
God is greater than man.
Job
33:13 Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account
of any of his matters?
Job
33:14 For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.
Job
33:15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on
men, in slumbering on the bed;
Job
33:16 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
Job
33:17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from
man.
Job
33:18 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from
perishing by the sword.
Job
33:19 He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual
strife in his bones;
Job
33:20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.
Job
33:21 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His
bones that were not seen stick out.
Job
33:22 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the
destroyers.
Job
33:23 "If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one
among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;
Job
33:24 then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going
down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'
Job
33:25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's. He returns to the
days of his youth.
Job
33:26 He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees
his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.
Job
33:27 He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted
that which was right, and it didn't profit me.
Job
33:28 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall
see the light.'
Job
33:29 "Behold, God works all these things, twice, yes three
times, with a man,
Job
33:30 to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be
enlightened with the light of the living.
Job
33:31 Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will
speak.
Job
33:32 If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to
justify you.
Job
33:33 If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you
wisdom."
Job
34:1 Moreover Elihu answered,
Job
34:2 "Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have
knowledge.
Job
34:3 For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.
Job
34:4 Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among
ourselves what is good.
Job
34:5 For Job has said, 'I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
Job
34:6 Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is
incurable, though I am without disobedience.'
Job
34:7 What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,
Job
34:8 Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks
with wicked men?
Job
34:9 For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should
delight himself with God.'
Job
34:10 "Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be
it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he
should commit iniquity.
Job
34:11 For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every
man to find according to his ways.
Job
34:12 Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the
Almighty pervert justice.
Job
34:13 Who put him in charge of the earth? or who has appointed him
over the whole world?
Job
34:14 If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his
spirit and his breath,
Job
34:15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to
dust.
Job
34:16 "If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the
voice of my words.
Job
34:17 Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him
who is righteous and mighty?--
Job
34:18 Who says to a king, 'Vile!' or to nobles, 'Wicked!'?
Job
34:19 Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, nor regards the
rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.
Job
34:20 In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken
and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.
Job
34:21 "For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his
goings.
Job
34:22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of
iniquity may hide themselves.
Job
34:23 For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should
go before God in judgment.
Job
34:24 He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, and
sets others in their place.
Job
34:25 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them
in the night, so that they are destroyed.
Job
34:26 He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
Job
34:27 because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn't pay
attention to any of his ways,
Job
34:28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He
heard the cry of the afflicted.
Job
34:29 When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides
his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a
man,
Job
34:30 that the godless man may not reign, that there be no one to
ensnare the people.
Job
34:31 "For has any said to God, 'I am guilty, but I will not
offend any more.
Job
34:32 Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I
will do it no more'?
Job
34:33 Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For
you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.
Job
34:34 Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who
hears me:
Job
34:35 'Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.'
Job
34:36 I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his
answering like wicked men.
Job
34:37 For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us,
and multiplies his words against God."
Job
35:1 Moreover Elihu answered,
Job
35:2 "Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My
righteousness is more than God's,'
Job
35:3 That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit
shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'
Job
35:4 I will answer you, and your companions with you.
Job
35:5 Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher
than you.
Job
35:6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If
your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
Job
35:7 If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he
receive from your hand?
Job
35:8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your
righteousness may profit a son of man.
Job
35:9 "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out.
They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Job
35:10 But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the
night,
Job
35:11 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes
us wiser than the birds of the sky?'
Job
35:12 There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of
evil men.
Job
35:13 Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the
Almighty regard it.
Job
35:14 How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause is
before him, and you wait for him!
Job
35:15 But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does
he greatly regard arrogance.
Job
35:16 Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he
multiplies words without knowledge."
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. 24
Romans
5
Rom 5:1
Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through
our Lord Jesus Christ;
Rom 5:2
through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in
which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Rom 5:3
Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that
suffering works perseverance;
Rom 5:4
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:
Rom 5:5
and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured
out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Rom 5:6
For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the
ungodly.
Rom 5:7
For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a
righteous person someone would even dare to die.
Rom 5:8
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.
Rom 5:9
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved
from God's wrath through him.
Rom
5:10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God
through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be
saved by his life.
Rom
5:11 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus
Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Rom
5:12 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and
death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all
sinned.
Rom
5:13 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged
when there is no law.
Rom
5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over
those whose sins weren't like Adam's disobedience, who is a
foreshadowing of him who was to come.
Rom
5:15 But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the
trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God,
and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the
many.
Rom
5:16 The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment
came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many
trespasses to justification.
Rom
5:17 For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the
one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and
of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus
Christ.
Rom
5:18 So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even
so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.
Rom
5:19 For as through the one man's disobedience many were made
sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made
righteous.
Rom
5:20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but
where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
Rom
5:21 that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through
righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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.
